Targeting RPM and Debian from a Debian box?

2007-07-06 Thread Christian Convey
My development workstation is running Debian, and I'd like to produce both .deb and .rpm releases of my software. Is this something people normally do from the same Debian workstation, or do they typically fire up a RedHat system to do their .rpm creation, and use a Debian workstation to do their

Re: Targeting RPM and Debian from a Debian box?

2007-07-06 Thread Luis Matos
Sex, 2007-07-06 às 18:47 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz escreveu: > Hi, > > > My development workstation is running Debian, and I'd like to produce > > both .deb and .rpm releases of my software. you can easily use virtual machines like xen and qemu to build and test them. > -- > Bernd Zeimetz > <[EMAIL P

Re: Targeting RPM and Debian from a Debian box?

2007-07-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, > My development workstation is running Debian, and I'd like to produce > both .deb and .rpm releases of my software. depending on your software producing packages for Redhat, SuSE or any other rpm based distributions on a Debian box is not what you want to do as you want to use their specifi

Re: Targeting RPM and Debian from a Debian box?

2007-07-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Christian Convey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My development workstation is running Debian, and I'd like to produce > both .deb and .rpm releases of my software. > Is this something people normally do from the same Debian workstation, > or do they typically fire up a RedHat system to do their .r

Re: Targeting RPM and Debian from a Debian box?

2007-07-06 Thread Christian Convey
\On 7/6/07, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Christian Convey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My development workstation is running Debian, and I'd like to produce > both .deb and .rpm releases of my software. > Is this something people normally do from the same Debian workstation, > or do

Re: Targeting RPM and Debian from a Debian box?

2007-07-06 Thread Peter Makholm
"Christian Convey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is this something people normally do from the same Debian workstation, > or do they typically fire up a RedHat system to do their .rpm > creation, and use a Debian workstation to do their .deb creation? Never done it myself but I would at least bui

Re: Targeting RPM and Debian from a Debian box?

2007-07-06 Thread Ivan Jager
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: Christian Convey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: My development workstation is running Debian, and I'd like to produce both .deb and .rpm releases of my software. Is this something people normally do from the same Debian workstation, or do they typically

Re: Targeting RPM and Debian from a Debian box?

2007-07-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
> Never done it myself but I would at least built the rpm in a chroot or > vserver with the target distribution installed. vserver is a good hint here, definitely my favourite way to install diferent distributions/versions/... on one machine, and way less ressource intensive than xen & co. -- B

Re: Targeting RPM and Debian from a Debian box?

2007-07-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 05:06:56PM +, Peter Makholm wrote: > "Christian Convey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is this something people normally do from the same Debian workstation, > > or do they typically fire up a RedHat system to do their .rpm > > creation, and use a Debian workstation

Re: Targeting RPM and Debian from a Debian box?

2007-07-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 04:30:43PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 05:06:56PM +, Peter Makholm wrote: > > "Christian Convey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Is this something people normally do from the same Debian workstation, > > > or do they typically fire up a

Re: Targeting RPM and Debian from a Debian box?

2007-07-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 07 July 2007 08:30, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > It looks like rpmstrap could build you a suitable chroot (like > debootstap for Debian), but from the description it appears to be > somewhat outdated (eg Fedora Core 2). mock worked for me to setup Fedora Core 6, haven#t tried 7 yet.

Re: Targeting RPM and Debian from a Debian box?

2007-07-07 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sat, Jul 07, 2007, Holger Levsen wrote: > O etch it hits one bug in rpm, so you need to mkdir /var/lib/rpm outside the > chroot. Doh! See the BTS for more info. Right; in fact, it's presumably both a feature and a bug of our RPM packages: "RPM Transaction Sets" don't work properly when rpmlo

Re: Targeting RPM and Debian from a Debian box?

2007-07-10 Thread Brett Parker
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 05:51:11PM +0100, Luis Matos wrote: > Sex, 2007-07-06 ??s 18:47 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz escreveu: > > Hi, > > > > > My development workstation is running Debian, and I'd like to produce > > > both .deb and .rpm releases of my software. > you can easily use virtual machines lik

Re: Targeting RPM and Debian from a Debian box?

2007-07-12 Thread Hector Oron
Maybe using 'alien'? 2007/7/6, Christian Convey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: \On 7/6/07, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christian Convey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > My development workstation is running Debian, and I'd like to produce > > both .deb and .rpm releases of my software. > >

Re: Targeting RPM and Debian from a Debian box?

2007-07-12 Thread Adam Borowski
> >> Christian Convey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > My development workstation is running Debian, and I'd like to produce > >> > both .deb and .rpm releases of my software. > On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 04:15:17PM +0200, Hector Oron wrote: > Maybe using 'alien'? This is an option only if your dep