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Re: SRPM to Debian Framework



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
> concerned, rpm2cpio could be handy, but will it be easy automate the
> deb package build process by using the information in the spec file
> and the source files in the archive?
>        Is there any example showing how we can manually accomplish this task.
>        Thankyou and hope to hear from you regarding this.


To me it seems like you want to re-implement
the programs `alien`, `dh_make` and `pbuilder`.

My advice is to study those programs before you implement your idea.


> regards,
> ram.


Hope This Helps
Geert Stappers


P.S.

My approach would be asking upstream to provide the source in tar.gz.

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