Re: Bug#23804: alien: packege version number is incremented
On Mon 22 Jun 1998, Joey Hess wrote:
> Paul Slootman wrote:
> > Note that somewhere 3.0.3-4 is converted to 3.0.3-5.
> > This happens with all the src.rpm's I downloaded (total 8).
>
> This is by design. If you don't want it to happen, pass --keep-version to
> alien.
>
> Not alpha related at all.
I expected to read this in the general description of alien in the
manpage, but nothing mentions this. Only if you look at the specific
--keep-version option description do you see this. I still can't
reason why this is done by design, however... It doesn't sound logical.
Oh well.
Anyway, most of the packages that are not yet compiled for Debian/Alpha
currently aren't supported on Red Hat/Alpha either, so Red Hat's not much
help.
Paul Slootman
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