Re: Metrolink Motif
>
> Alex Yukhimets:
> > I myself got some strange numbers instead of some real users (like root)
> > and groups (like bin). It happend with both rpm and tar archives.
> > After I upgraded tar from 1.11.8-11 to 1.12-1 I managed to get reasonable
> > ownerships (bin/bin) but only with tar archive. rpm still gives strange
> > numbers.
> >
> > I used alien_3.3 to convert rpm to .deb, but since ownerships were still
> > bad,
>
> What't the problem with the ownerships? Is it just that the deb and tar file
> have users in them that arn't present in debian? If you use alien, it should
> clean that up so everything is owned by root.root.
Unfortunately it doesn't. After installing package convrted with
alien *.rpm (for version 5) or
alien -i -n *.rpm (for 3.3) files still have bad ownerships.
Alex Y.
>
> > I just made a simple slackware .tgz package, it is not hard at all,
> > you just have to modify motif.install file to look like slackware's
> > doinst.sh and repack everything in a single motif-2.0.1.tgz file.
> > After that I again used alien_3.3 to convert that to .deb.
> >
> > !!!! Suprisingly, alien_5 didn't work for this purpors. It does not
> > convert .tgz packages properly. (after installation I still have /install
> > directory). - Does anyone have any idea why?
>
> Probably because my slackware .tgz support is broken (I maintain alien).
> I'll grab a couple of .tgz packages and see if I can get this fixed.
>
> --
> See shy Jo.
>
>
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