Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MC> I would like to know if alien can be user to obtain a .deb from a MC> .rpm.
Yes. MC> If this is the case, what happens with the directories were, after MC> installation, files are installed? I mean RH may use some MC> directories and Debian anothers. Nothing happens. This means that the Alienized Debian package might have files strewn about in strange places like /etc/rc.d/init.d that "normal" Debian packages ignore. MC> How compares an "alienized" (.rpm --> .deb) version of a program MC> with an original .deb version? After install both of them work MC> equally fine? Debian has reasonably strict policies about how a package should look and where files go. Red Hat's policies are different, and tend to be less strictly obeyed. An Alienized package will probably work, but it might not be a great fit with the rest of your system. MC> Both versions can be updated using apt-get? You're probably not going to be able to install a package you used Alien to create with apt-get, but dpkg can handle it just fine. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
