SRPM to Debian Framework

2005-07-16 Thread Ram Kumar DANGETI
Hi, Just wondering whether it could be easy to build a framework or a package in python or perl which could convert an SRPM into a deb package. As far as extracting the tgz and spec file from a SRPM is concerned, rpm2cpio could be handy, but will it be easy automate the deb package bu

Re: SRPM to Debian Framework

2005-07-18 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 01:56:26AM +0200, Ram Kumar DANGETI wrote: > Hi, >Just wondering whether it could be easy to build a framework or > a package in python or perl which could convert an SRPM into a deb > package. >As far as extracting the tgz and spec file from a SRPM is > conc

Re: SRPM to Debian Framework

2005-07-18 Thread Ram Kumar DANGETI
Actually the idea was a bit more than just being able to maintain RPMs (SRPMs) and DEBs in parallel for the same product. If we are able to create deb packages on the fly using the spec file and source package conatined in SRPM, it could be very useful solution for porting RPM based pack