3 Commits
8.66 ... 8.67

Author SHA1 Message Date
joey
2ea474e531 releasing version 8.67 2007-05-17 17:35:16 +00:00
joey
f81986d554 * Correct a bug that caused alien to ignore failing commands. Closes: #424858 2007-05-17 17:34:20 +00:00
joey
0f3f0ab92c * Update the url to the web page, and remove several other broken urls from
the README.
2007-05-17 04:11:15 +00:00
4 changed files with 13 additions and 16 deletions

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@@ -446,7 +446,8 @@ sub do {
}
else {
# parent
return (waitpid($pid, 0) > 0);
my $ret=(waitpid($pid, 0) > 0);
return ! $ret || ! $?;
}
}

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README
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@@ -3,14 +3,7 @@ Please read alien's man page for general documentation.
Getting alien:
The newest versions of alien are available at the alien home page; drop by
http://kitenet.net/programs/alien/
On metalab and its mirrors, alien is located in the
pub/Linux/utils/scripts/ directory.
You can also get rpm or deb packages of alien:
deb: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/unstable/binary-all/admin/alien_*.deb
rpm: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/noarch/alien-*.rpm
http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/alien/
Other things you'll need:
@@ -27,8 +20,7 @@ Other things you'll need:
dpkg, dpkg-dev, and debhelper (version 3 or above) packages, which are
available on http://packages.debian.org
To convert to/from stampede packages, you will need bzip2, get it from
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/bzip2/index.html
To convert to/from stampede packages, you will need bzip2.
Attention, Slackware, Red Hat, and Stampede users: Bruce S. Babcock
<babcock@math.psu.edu> has put together an "alien-extra"
@@ -43,10 +35,6 @@ Other things you'll need:
The Stampede version is at
ftp://ykbsb2.yk.psu.edu/pub/alien/alien-extra.slp
Solaris users can find pkg's of much of the above software,
at http://mah.everybody.org/hacks/os/solaris/ , thanks to Mark
A. Hershberger <mah@everybody.org>.
Note:
Alien is really designed to be used to convert from alien file formats to

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debian/changelog vendored
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@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
alien (8.67) unstable; urgency=low
* Update the url to the web page, and remove several other broken urls from
the README.
* Correct a bug that caused alien to ignore failing commands. Closes: #424858
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 May 2007 13:34:36 -0400
alien (8.66) unstable; urgency=low
* Use date -R as 822-date will soon be deprecated.

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debian/copyright vendored
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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ This program is now maintained by Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>.
Copyright 1996, 1997 Christoph Lameter
Portions copyright 1997 Randolph Chung
Portions copyright 2001 Mark A. Hershberger
Copyright 1997-2005 Joey Hess
Copyright 1997-2007 Joey Hess
License: