Re: lsb-apache rpms

[Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>]

Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> 
> >>"Thorsten" == Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> writes:
> 
>  Thorsten> On Tue, Dec 18, Anthony Towns wrote:
>  >> > Yes, and I think a user should be able to install them with the default
>  >> > tools of the distribution.
>  >>
>  >> Ah, so "dpkg -i lsb-apache-1.3.22-1.i386.rpm" is expected to work?
> 
>  Thorsten> Don't be kidding. And read again what I wrote.  Don't make
>  Thorsten> the things more complicated than necessary.
> 
>         Pardon me, how exactly is what he said kidding? Is that not
>  what you said? (That the user should be able to install them with the
>  default tools of the distribution -- and guess what, the default
>  tools of my distribution are indeed dpkg).

Although dpkg could be enhanced to handle lsb packages, why not just do
   apt-get install rpm
?  That's what I do at work to install the .rpm's that Hard Hat Linux
consists of (since their install script uses rpm, I can't use alien).
- Dan