Building complex packages,conversions and alien

[nuno romano <nuno_romano@yahoo.com>]

jupiter:~# alien --scripts --to-deb
MySQL-server-5.0.18-0.glibc23.ppc.rpm
Package build failed. Here's the log:
dh_testdir
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
dh_clean -k -d
dh_installdirs
dh_installdocs
dh_installchangelogs
find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -not -name debian
-print0 | \
        xargs -0 -r -i cp -a {} debian/mysql-server
dh_compress
dh_makeshlibs
dh_installdeb
dh_shlibdeps
dh_gencontrol
dh_md5sums
dh_builddeb
dpkg-deb: conffile `/usr/etc/my.cnf' does not appear
in package
dpkg-deb: building package `mysql-server' in
`../mysql-server_5.0.18-1_powerpc.deb'.
dh_builddeb: command returned error code 512
make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1
find: MySQL-server-5.0.18: No such file or directory
jupiter:~#

Trying to convert directly I got the above.So I
converted the above file
to MySQL-server-5.0.18.tgz and then from .tgz to
mysql-server_5.0.18-2_all.deb.
All seemed to work well and because the rpm is of
binaries structured
according their placement in the file system,at first
sight I don´t see here
any futur concern but I have not installed so far.
Any opinion about potential problems with this kind of
method?
I used alien-8.60 the latest in Debian testing.


                                  Thanks.



	
		
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