Re: deb packages not offered: lame xcdplay?
drudd@email.arizona.edu writes:
> On this note, does anyone want to weigh
> in on how well alien works for converting RPM's?
Well, the one package I tried alien on (galeon) worked fine. One thing you
should watch out for, though, is that RedHat has certain files in different
locations than Debian (notably the initialization files, like /etc/init.d/*),
so converting those packages may not work.
On a related note, a lot of source tarballs contain a .spec file to create an
rpm, but no debian directory. Is there some way to convert the .spec file to a
debian directory, so that I can make a debian package? I bet it would be a lot
easier than trying to build the rpm and then converting to deb using alien.
Hubert.
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