Hi On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Joey Hess wrote:
> Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 19:09:45 -0500 > From: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Jim Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Problem with wajig rpm2deb command > > Jim Holland wrote: > > I was wanting to install a later than standard version of Midnight > > Commander to solve some problems with the standard stable version > > 4.6.1-pre3-3, so found I had a choice between a tarball, a patch and an > > rpm at the following site: > > > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/managers/mc/snapshots/ > > > > I thought I would be adventurous and run the command: > > > > wajig rpm2deb mc-2005112320-1.i386.rpm > > > > It successfully created a .deb package which installed fine. However I > > soon realised that that many of the files in the rpm (eg /usr/share/mc/* > > for example, as well as others) were missing from the .deb package. Is > > there any way round this problem other than going back to the tarball? Or > > is rpm2deb still somewhat experimental? > > After converting that file with alien, I don't see any missing files in > the deb. AFAIK wajig uses alien. You are right. I hadn't checked the rpm carefully enough. The files /usr/share/mc/* are in fact missing from that package, so the problem was not in the conversion. In order to get "wajig rpm2deb" to work I had to install alien, so wajig presumably does use alien. Regards Jim Holland System Administrator MANGO - Zimbabwe's non-profit e-mail service -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
