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Re: rpm file



Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote:
> 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.

That blurb and the warnings that follow are intended to cause people to
use an appropriate level of caution when using alien, not to make them
throw caution to the winds and go mucking around manually with rpm2cpio
and cp, which is a much more likely way to break something.

-- 
see shy jo

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