Re: RPM & DEBIAN

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Subject: Re: RPM & DEBIAN
From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 12:31:48 +0100
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On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:53:37PM +0300, Nikodim Nikodimov wrote:
> I would like to have full support of RPM...a men to be able to install
> *.rpm files.
> Is it possible to do this with deb rpm package or I to build RPM from
> scratch?

This is extremely dangerous, as the two packaging systems would have no
protection against overwriting each other's files. The usual suggestion
is to use alien instead.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]

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