Hi Dne Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:01:22 +0000 (GMT) Ben Harris <[email protected]> napsal(a):
> When I try to unpack a source package, this happens:
>
> wraith:/tmp$ rpm -i gnome-panel-2.24.1-2.27.1.src.rpm
> rpm: please use alien to install rpm packages on Debian, if you are really
> sure use --force-debian switch. See README.Debian for more details.
>
> This seems wrong to me. Obviously I shouldn't try to install binary
> packages like this, but for a source package, rpm -i is roughly equivalent
> to dpkg-source -x, both perfectly reasonable things to do on a non-native
> system. README.Debian doesn't contain any suggestion of why unpacking
> source packages should be a problem, and even comments on where they'll be
> unpacked to.
>
> I think the "rpm" command should only refuse to install a package if it
> isn't a source package.
Basically you're right, however I did not find way how to implement
such behavior.
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