> Well, there are many custom packages which are developed with rpm. > Suppose all files will go into /usr/local -- most of them will be > shell or perl scripts: what would be the possibility of an rpm > package (using alien) will screw a debian system?
One thing that my limited experience with alien has shown me, and perhaps someone can correct me, is that alien does not respect rpm owner, group, mode on files. So you might alien an rpm and find the files are all owned by 'bob' instead of 'root' because 'bob' created the rpm. Whereas if you had installed the file as an rpm the files would all be correctly owned. The behavior suggests to me that alien runs rpm2cpio and looks at the raw cpio data instead of using the librpm interface to do the equiv of rpm -qplv which shows the desired owner, group, mode. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
