Bug#565421: rpm -i should not need --force-debian for source packages
Hi Dne Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:50:05 + Christoph Anton Mitterer cales...@scientia.net napsal(a): I very much liked the old behaviour of _generally_ requiring --force-debian, as it's a reasonable protection against stupid things. Wouldn't it be a nice compromise, to required (per default) --force-debian (generally) but to allow setting some config-option, which disables this requirement for source packages? The problem is that I really do not see way how to detect whether you are installing source package at time when command line options are processed. However I do not know rpm code so good, so maybe there is way. Patches welcome :-). -- Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com | http://blog.cihar.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Bug#565421: rpm -i should not need --force-debian for source packages
Hi. I very much liked the old behaviour of _generally_ requiring --force-debian, as it's a reasonable protection against stupid things. Wouldn't it be a nice compromise, to required (per default) --force-debian (generally) but to allow setting some config-option, which disables this requirement for source packages? Cheers, Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#565421: rpm -i should not need --force-debian for source packages
Hi Dne Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:01:22 + (GMT) Ben Harris bj...@cam.ac.uk 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. -- Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com | http://blog.cihar.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Bug#565421: rpm -i should not need --force-debian for source packages
Subject: rpm -i should not need --force-debian for source packages Package: rpm Version: 4.7.2-1+b1 Severity: normal 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. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.27.9 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages rpm depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.28 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libelf1 0.143-1 library to read and write ELF file ii libnss3-1d 3.12.5-1 Network Security Service libraries ii libpopt01.15-1 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii librpm0 4.7.2-1+b1 RPM shared library ii librpmbuild04.7.2-1+b1 RPM build shared library ii librpmio0 4.7.2-1+b1 RPM IO shared library ii perl5.10.1-8 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii rpm-common 4.7.2-1 common files for RPM ii rpm2cpio4.7.2-1+b1 tool to convert RPM package to CPI ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime rpm recommends no packages. Versions of packages rpm suggests: ii alien 8.79 convert and install rpm and other pn elfutils none (no description available) pn rpm-i18n none (no description available) -- debconf information: * rpm/upgrade-failed: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
