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.
* Fixed newlines in tgz filelist.
* Fixed some undefined value warnings.
* Put the rpm spec file back in. Converting the debs to rpms fails
because rpm doesn't use the same perl include path. Bummer.
* Fixed duplicate alien man page problem.
* Fixed newlines in tgz filelist.
* Fixed some undefined value warnings.
* Put the rpm spec file back in. Converting the debs to rpms fails
because rpm doesn't use the same perl include path. Bummer.
objects. These objects can read all relevant details about a package, and
can generate packages based on that information. Thus, converting from one
format to another becomes a simple matter of generating one of these
objects, pointing it at a package, mutating it into the destination
class, and telling it to write the new package out! A basic alien can now
be written using these objects in one "line" of perl -- in fact, here is
one:
perl -MAlien::Package::Deb -MAlien::Package::Rpm -e '
$p=Alien::Package::Rpm->new(filename => shift); $p->unpack;
* Almost every line of code has been rewritten.
* Package descriptions now include a note that they were converted with
alien. There are other numerous changes to the converted packages, for
instance, generated .deb's now have more info in their copyright file.
* The template files were all moved inside the objects, which is actually
cleaner and is certainly easier to deal with.
* Usernames are now looked up the way POSIX intended.
* alien.1 is now generated from POD docs.
* Alien can now convert into multiple formats at once.
* Alien now always cleans up after failed converts, Closes: #62331
* Alien can now be used to just install a package with no conversion.
Closes: #53441
* Use a Makefile.PL because that seems to make sense, which means lots of
the build system had to be changed.
