Hi,
I'm hoping to convert an rpm package to a deb using alien in an automated
process on a redhat machine. I've installed alien (8.43), dpkg (1.10.18) and
debhelper (4.1.89) on the redhat machine from source.
The issue I'm having is that the converted packages lose the dependencies that
were defined in the rpm:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] rpm -qpR ~/tmp/sav-3.77-1.i386.rpm
/u/ws/sol/fraser/p4/private
sav-updates = 3.77
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
ld-linux.so.2
libc.so.6
libsavi.so.3
/bin/sh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dpkg -I /tmp/sav_3.77-1_i386.deb
new debian package, version 2.0.
size 5985598 bytes: control archive= 2205 bytes.
116 bytes, 5 lines conffiles
338 bytes, 12 lines control
3539 bytes, 55 lines md5sums
135 bytes, 7 lines * postinst #!/bin/sh
132 bytes, 7 lines * postrm #!/bin/sh
14 bytes, 1 lines shlibs
Package: sav
Version: 3.77-1
Section: alien
Priority: extra
Architecture: i386
Installed-Size: 7752
Maintainer: Fraser Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description: sophos anti-virus
The above conversion was done from the redhat system (7.3). The same
conversion performed on Debian also results in lost dependencies. The
conversion performed on Debian at least results in a glibc dependency though
the dependency I care most about (sav-updates) is still lost.
Does anyone know what might be wrong? We build this package from cron jobs on
the redhat machine to install on other redhat machines, converting the
package with alien for the debian installs we do seemed the easiest approach.
I probably won't have any problems building the deb directly with
dpkg-buildpackage but I'm curious about the issue with alien, if it can be
resolved I still prefer that approach.
Thanks
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Fraser Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.wehave.net/
Georgetown, Ontario, Canada Debian GNU/Linux
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