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.
conversion. Since that output is grep'ed, items might have been
accidentually excuded before (although ls seems to output one file per
line when run inside makefiles, probably because it notices it is not
at a tty). Anyway, I had a report that there was a problem here, and
this should fix it.
* Applied a patch from Chris Gorman to deal with spaces in directory
names, spaces in conffile names (!!), and accented characters
everywhere in deb -> rpm conversions.
* Fixed numerous problems when converting from .deb w/o dpkg installed.
not in a subshell; this is safer especially if odd filenames are
involved.
* When converting from rpm, only chmod each directory once, it was doing
it many times for some directories before.
* Fixed chmodding to use the correct path to the directory. This fixes
file permissions in rpm's converted to other formats, a bug introduced
at 7.0.
* Fixed some undefined value warnings (which pointed out real but rare
bugs).
* Fixed a rare, but bad little bug. If you ran alien in a directory that
had the suid/sgid bit set (as my home directory does), and generated
debs and probably other formats, it generated packages with the root
directory suid/sgid.
* 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.
* 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 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.
