Re: RPM

[Joey Hess <joey@kite.ml.org>]

Leslie Mikesell:
> > 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?  

Alien doesn't currently handle that. It's just too much work, and there's
no way I could guarentee it'd be correct all the time.

Alien just converts from one format to another, and you get all the files,
in all the same locations they were in in the original package.

-- 
See shy Jo.