don't try to modify a constant value

RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX gets set.

.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+alien.lsm
+alien.spec

Alien/Package/Deb.pm

@@ -87,8 +87,11 @@ sub install {
 	my $this=shift;
 	my $deb=shift;
 
+	my $v=$Alien::Package::verbose;
+	$Alien::Package::verbose=2;
 	$this->do("dpkg", "--no-force-overwrite", "-i", $deb)
 		or die "Unable to install";
+	$Alien::Package::verbose=$v;
 }
 
 =item test

Alien/Package/Pkg.pm

@@ -106,8 +106,11 @@ sub install {
 	my $pkg=shift;
 
 	if (-x "/usr/sbin/pkgadd") {
+		my $v=$Alien::Package::verbose;
+		$Alien::Package::verbose=2;
 		$this->do("/usr/sbin/pkgadd", "-d .", "$pkg")
 			or die "Unable to install";
+		$Alien::Package::verbose=$v;
 	}
 	else {
 		die "Sorry, I cannot install the generated .pkg file because /usr/sbin/pkgadd is not present.\n";

Alien/Package/Rpm.pm

@@ -53,8 +53,11 @@ sub install {
 	my $this=shift;
 	my $rpm=shift;
 
+	my $v=$Alien::Package::verbose;
+	$Alien::Package::verbose=2;
 	$this->do("rpm -ivh ".(exists $ENV{RPMINSTALLOPT} ? $ENV{RPMINSTALLOPT} : '').$rpm)
 		or die "Unable to install";
+	$Alien::Package::verbose=$v;
 }
 
 =item scan
@@ -75,18 +78,20 @@ sub scan {
 		POSTUN => 'postrm',
 	);
 
-	# These fields need no translation except case.
-	foreach (qw{name version release arch changelogtext summary
-		    description copyright prefixes}) {
-		$fieldtrans{uc $_}=$_;
-	}
-
 	# Use --queryformat to pull out all the fields we need.
-	foreach my $field (keys(%fieldtrans)) {
+	foreach my $field (qw{NAME VERSION RELEASE ARCH CHANGELOGTEXT
-		$_=$this->runpipe(0, "LANG=C rpm -qp --queryformat \%{$field} $file");
+		              SUMMARY DESCRIPTION COPYRIGHT PREFIXES},
-		$field=$fieldtrans{$field};
+	                   keys(%fieldtrans)) {
-		$_='' if $_ eq '(none)';
+		my $value=$this->runpipe(0, "LANG=C rpm -qp --queryformat \%{$field} $file");
-		$this->$field($_);
+		my $key;
+		if (exists $fieldtrans{$field}) {
+			$key=$fieldtrans{$field};
+		}
+		else {
+			$key=lc($field);
+		}
+		$value='' if $value eq '(none)';
+		$this->$key($value);
 	}
 
 	# Get the conffiles list.

Alien/Package/Slp.pm

@@ -114,8 +114,11 @@ sub install {
 	my $this=shift;
 	my $slp=shift;
 
+	my $v=$Alien::Package::verbose;
+	$Alien::Package::verbose=2;
 	$this->do("slpi", $slp)
 		or die "Unable to install";
+	$Alien::Package::verbose=$v;
 }
 
 =item getfooter

Alien/Package/Tgz.pm

@@ -66,8 +66,11 @@ sub install {
 	my $tgz=shift;
 
 	if (-x "/sbin/installpkg") {
+		my $v=$Alien::Package::verbose;
+		$Alien::Package::verbose=2;
 		$this->do("/sbin/installpkg", "$tgz")
 			or die "Unable to install";
+		$Alien::Package::verbose=$v;
 	}
 	else {
 		die "Sorry, I cannot install the generated .tgz file because /sbin/installpkg is not present. You can use tar to install it yourself.\n"

alien.pl

@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ built.
 
 Be less strict about which patch file is used, perhaps attempting to use a patch
 file for an older verson of the package. This is not guaranteed to always work;
-older patches may necessarily not work with newer packages.
+older patches may not necessarily work with newer packages.
 
 =item B<--nopatch>
 
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ Note that without an argument, this displays the version of B<alien> instead.
 =item B<-c>, B<--scripts>
 
 Try to convert the scripts that are meant to be run when the
-package is installed and removed. Use this with caution, becuase these
+package is installed and removed. Use this with caution, because these
 scripts might be designed to work on a system unlike your own, and could
 cause problems. It is recommended that you examine the scripts by hand
 and check to see what they do before using this option.

debian/changelog

@@ -1,3 +1,26 @@
+alien (8.70) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Extract prefixes field before extracting scripts so that
+    RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX gets set.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:05:40 -0400
+
+alien (8.69) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Alien's repository has moved from subversion to git.
+  * Minor improvement to debian/rules clean.
+  * Improve the short description.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:27:53 -0400
+
+alien (8.68) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Show output of installation of package with -i, since some packages
+    install scripts may have important output or even be interactive.
+    Closes: #425732
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 24 May 2007 14:08:39 -0400
+
 alien (8.67) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Update the url to the web page, and remove several other broken urls from

debian/control

@@ -1,17 +1,18 @@
 Source: alien
 Section: admin
 Priority: optional
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4), dpkg-dev (>= 1.9.0)
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4)
 Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
-Standards-Version: 3.7.2
+Standards-Version: 3.7.3
-XS-Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.kitenet.net/joey/trunk/src/packages/alien
+Vcs-Git: git://git.kitenet.net/alien
+Homepage: http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/alien/
 
 Package: alien
 Architecture: all
 Section: admin
 Depends: debhelper (>= 3), ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, rpm (>= 2.4.4-2), dpkg-dev, make, cpio
 Suggests: patch, bzip2, lsb-rpm, lintian
-Description: install non-native packages with dpkg
+Description: convert and install rpm and other packages
  Alien allows you to convert LSB, Red Hat, Stampede and Slackware Packages
  into Debian packages, which can be installed with dpkg.
  .

debian/rules

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ clean:
 	dh_testroot
 	rm -f build-stamp
 	perl Makefile.PL
-	-$(MAKE) realclean
+	if [ -e Makefile ]; then $(MAKE) realclean; fi
 	dh_clean
 
 binary-arch: build