[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On this note, does anyone want to weigh > in on how well alien works for converting RPM's?
Well, the one package I tried alien on (galeon) worked fine. One thing you should watch out for, though, is that RedHat has certain files in different locations than Debian (notably the initialization files, like /etc/init.d/*), so converting those packages may not work. On a related note, a lot of source tarballs contain a .spec file to create an rpm, but no debian directory. Is there some way to convert the .spec file to a debian directory, so that I can make a debian package? I bet it would be a lot easier than trying to build the rpm and then converting to deb using alien. Hubert.
