Re: lsb packages and apt-get
On 12/14/05, Mats Wichmann <mats@wichmann.us> wrote:
> Hi, Dan. I didn't see an answer to this... sounds like this
> would be a cool thing to work on, I haven't really seen a
> way to automate the process from the dpkg side. Seems like
> there may still be some lurking alien bugs although I don't
> have the precise proof, but I recall converting some of
> the LSB test pkgs on Ubuntu recently and getting things in
> weird paths, not running scripts, etc. I'm not convinced
> the "if it's an LSB package, it's okay to keep the install-time
> scripts" logic (alien -c) isn't still fragile. I know others
> have run these tests more formally so perhaps this was really
> operator error (wouldn't be the first time). It would probably
> be beneficial to flush out the full story on that first
> ("first" he says, a month after the original message :-)
Thanks for the reply. I'll be playing with alien a bit soon.
Not sure when I'll get a chance to start looking at the
apt-get integration.
- Dan
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