Bug#260948: alien: allow architecture to be specified on command line

2011-04-08 Thread Sam Brightman
I believe this issue was triggered by a change in the meaning of the flags, so that -a no longer means "all". I looked at it briefly and considered this a silly regression; the previous options covered all use-cases including that of the person requesting the change. Maybe I misunderstood. The bug

Bug#260948: alien: allow architecture to be specified on command line

2005-09-20 Thread Brian White
There is another place it would be usefull... tarballs. Since a tgz file doesn't specify an architecture, it comes up as "all" which may not be correct for precompiled binaries. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )