Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > >> >> Alien is program that runs rpm2cpio on a rpm file and generates a deb >> file from it. > > > I know. > >> Suggesting that it would somehow be safer to to this by > >> hand makes no sense at all. > > > Yes it does. If I did it by hand, I know that the right thing got put in > the right place. Either that or I screwed up. > The difference is that to do it by hand, you must be an expert on RPM and DEB formats. OTOH, if you are an expert on the DEB format, you can alien an RPM to DEB format, upack the DEB and verify everything is correct. >> >> Alien is also not anywhere near experimental, having been used by many >> people for ten years. >> > > From the alien man-page (on Sarge): > >> WARNING >> Despite the high version number, alien is still (and will probably >> always be) rather experimental software. It's been under >> development >> for many years now, but there are still many bugs and limitations. > Think of it like the various Google Beta products :-) -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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