Re: using RHL 7's rpm in debian 2.2r2

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de>]

Joey Hess wrote:
> Johann Spies wrote:
> > Two complications: 1. Potato's alien would not translate RHL 7's rpm's
> > to debian.  You need one from woody and that will require libc6 2.2 as
> > far as I know.
> 
> No version of rpm in debian can handle red hat 7 rpms. Updates to a
> version of rpm that can are stalled until we get db3 into debian.
> 
> Of course you can always install alien (and alien-extra) onto a red hat
> 7 box and do the conversion there..
> 
> > 2. Your dependencies may create a lot of problems.
> > You may try alien for smaller packages which are not available in
> > Debian, but I would not try it with something like XF 4.0.1.
> 
> Me neither. To quote myself in the man page:
> 
>        Alien should not be used to replace important system pack-
>        ages, like init, libc, or other things that are essential
>        for the functioning of your system. Many of these packages
>        are set up differently by the different distributions, and
>        packages from the different distributions cannot be used
>        interchangeably. In general, if you can't remove a package
>        without breaking your system, don't try to replace it with
>        an alien version.
> 
> > You would be better off by using apt-get source and get sources from
> > testing or unstable, compiling them to debian packages and install
> > them on potato if you want to use newer versions.
> 
> I belive that x4 debs are available backported to stable, though I don't have
> an apt source offhand.

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Regards,

	Joey

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