working in recent versions of rpm, as shipped by red hat (Debian's rpm,
confusingly, continues to support rpm -bb, possibly because of how I hack
its popt stuff up for debian.) This may fail with older, pre-rpmbuild
rpm's; if so you should upgrade to a more current version I guess.
* Updated js2k patch from Gerald Turner.
version of a tgz file, for files that don't have a parseable version
number. For consistency with --description, I made the otpino be called
--version -- if no argument is specified to this option, it retains its
old behavior of displaying alien's version, but it is now overloaded
if given an argument. Closes: #165584
users/groups in their preinst, and which alien therefore cannot ship the
files with proper ownerships in the .deb. In this case alien will now
insert appropriate chown commands into the postinst script of the
converted package.
* That only works when converting rpm to deb, not the other way around,
for now.
* Removed the cpio directory permissions fixup code, which was probably
broken, and is obsolete since I get directory perms from the rpm now.
* Allow fallback to different debian revisions w/o --anypatch.
* Add a changelog parser so I can work out the built version of a package.
Ugh. Closes: #157971
known permissions setting from rpm --queryformat, so that it can override
any directories that do indeed have a permission set.
* Fixed MakeFile.PL to work with perl 5.8.
from rpm, ignore the icky file owners and perms from the cpio archive,
and query rpm for the real set that it overrides in the control data
structure. Closes: #151546
from rpm, ignore the icky file owners and perms from the cpio archive,
and query rpm for the real set that it overrides in the control data
structure. Closes: #151546
* If a preinstall script in a rpm starts like this:
# BEGINNING_OF_POST_DOT_SH
#!/bin/sh
Add anther hashbang at the top, so dpkg doesn't croak on it.
Closes: #137032
fully conformant with the LSB), and it can take LSB packages and convert
them into other formats. Unlike all the other conversions, lsb packages's
dependancy (on lsb) and their package scripts are preserved in the
generated packages (when allowed by the target package format). This means
your distribution will need to have a package named 'lsb' for the result
to be installable. (Debian will have one soon..)
* Suggest rpm-lsb, which is the preferred rpm to build lsb packages with.
Use it if it's present, plain old rpm otherwise.
The latter used to work, but no longer does, due to some change in rpm or
popt. It also has to come after the -bb.
* Trap stderr of rpm and debian/rules building packages, and only display if
the build fails.
alien now supports converting to and from Solaris "pkg" packages (which
are really SysV packages). You probably need to run it on Solaris for this
to work, though. This brings the number of possible conversions alien can
do up from 12 to a monstrous 20!
* Mark also had to patch Deb.pm a bit so the by-hand deb extraction could
work with solaris's ar and tar.
* Documented the EMAIL environment variable. Closes: #116754
* Threw out a lot of old patches, circa 1999. Probably useless today.
* When converting to debs, move files as follows, if possible, for better
FHS compliance:
/usr/man => /usr/share/man
/usr/info => /usr/share/info
/usr/doc' => /usr/share/doc
* Also moves files as follows, to avoid possibly confusing dpkg with
installing over symlinks (?). Closes: #40012
/usr/bin/X11 should be /usr/X11R6/bin
/usr/lib/X11 should be /usr/X11R6/lib/X11
/usr/include/X11 should be /usr/X11R6/include/X11
* Reverse these moves in the cleantree stage.
* Debian users who have installed alien packages in the past may want to
re-convert and reinstall them, to take advantage of the new FHS
conversions.
There are still a lot that use shell tricks. Should deal with screwey
rpms and file names better though. Closes: #105283
* Display build logs after build failures.
There are still a lot that use shell tricks. Should deal with screwey
rpms and file names better though. Closes: #105283
* Display build logs after build failures.
everywhere it used to use tar zxvf. The problem with the latter is
that, on red hat anyway, tar or gzip seems to be broken, and tar does
not see an end-of-file marker, causing alien to hang when converting
rpms to debs. Closes: #96200
automatically should make it start adding ldconfig calls
as appropriate to maintainer scripts. Closes: #86088
* It does mean you need debhelper 3.x for alien to convert to
deb now, so alien-extra will need an update.
* Rebuilt with newer perl, so it will work with newer perl (bug filed;
this should not have been necessary).
automatically should make it start adding ldconfig calls
as appropriate to maintainer scripts. Closes: #86088
* It does mean you need debhelper 3.x for alien to convert to
deb now, so alien-extra will need an update.
