Re: Converting rpm to deb with alien loses dependencies

[Albert Dengg]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 13:13:37 -0500
Fraser Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

...
 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:
...
Hi
It has been a while since I used Redhat (and rpm), but as far as I
remember, rpm dependencys are files, not packages, whereas in debian, it
is based on the package...which results in that it is nearly imposible
to automatically create them..
And if I read the manpage of alien correctly, alien does only support
dependencys when converting from lsb packages

yours,
Albert
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Re: Converting rpm to deb with alien loses dependencies

[Fraser Campbell]

On Friday 30 January 2004 13:41, Albert Dengg wrote:

 And if I read the manpage of alien correctly, alien does only support
 dependencys when converting from lsb packages

Unfortunately it looks like you're correct, I skimmed that paragraph the first 
time thinking it wasn't relevant:

   lsb  To convert from lsb packages, the Red Hat Package Manager must be
installed. Unlike the other package formats, alien can handle the
depenendencies of lsb packages if the destination package format 
supports
dependencies. Note that this means that the package generated from a 
lsb
package will depend on a package named lsb -- your distribution 
should
provide a package by that name, if it is lsb compliant. The scripts in 
the
lsb package will be converted by default as well.

Key is the statement Unlike the other package formats, alien can handle the 
depenendencies of lsb packages.  That sucks.  Oh well, time to start 
building debs directly.

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Georgetown, Ontario, Canada Debian GNU/Linux


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