Re: RPM

[Leslie Mikesell <les@Mcs.Net>]

> > Randolph Chung has released a alpha-test version of a utility that
> > will convert .deb files to .rpm files.
> > 
> > http://132.236.56.9/pages/rc42/program/martian.html
> > 
> > And Debian's alien package can already install .rpm files.
> 
> Randolph is a close friend of mine (I'm the maintainer of the alien program),
> and we're working together on this, and in a week or so, alien will merge in 
> martian's functionality and be able to convert in both directions.

Great!  Will it be aware of the different filesystem locations?  Shouldn't
these really be built into a user-configurable list instead of
the packages themselves?  

Les Mikesell
  les@mcs.com