Package alien

[King InuYasha]

Though, will dpkg and the like be purposely crippled on Fedora like
rpm is on Debian systems? It probably would be a good idea to patch
dpkg and stuff to make sure they don't work as standard packagers, but
rather just helpers to alien, as RPM does on a Debian system. We want
to avoid the possibility of package jumbling.....

On Dec 5, 2007 12:58 PM, Yaakov Nemoy <loupgaroublond at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 5, 2007 11:19 AM, Zdenek Prikryl <zprikryl at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Hmm after little investigation I found, that convert deb, tgz, slp to rpm isn't
> > problem. But reverse conversion is big problem. For example, if I want to
> > convert rmp do deb, I have to have installed dpkg[-dev] and debhelper, which are
> > debian packages for creating deb files. All of those packages aren't in fedora
> > repos.
>
> Debian has the inverse, namely, it has all the packages to create RPMs.
>
> +1 if the ability to turn RPMs into DEBs show up.  It could make
> getting multi-distro support for Smolt easier.
>
> -Yaakov
>
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