Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > >>"Thorsten" == Thorsten Kukuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thorsten> On Tue, Dec 18, Anthony Towns wrote: > >> > Yes, and I think a user should be able to install them with the default > >> > tools of the distribution. > >> > >> Ah, so "dpkg -i lsb-apache-1.3.22-1.i386.rpm" is expected to work? > > Thorsten> Don't be kidding. And read again what I wrote. Don't make > Thorsten> the things more complicated than necessary. > > Pardon me, how exactly is what he said kidding? Is that not > what you said? (That the user should be able to install them with the > default tools of the distribution -- and guess what, the default > tools of my distribution are indeed dpkg).
Although dpkg could be enhanced to handle lsb packages, why not just do apt-get install rpm ? That's what I do at work to install the .rpm's that Hard Hat Linux consists of (since their install script uses rpm, I can't use alien). - Dan
