releasing version 8.78

Recent versions of rpm (such as 4.7.0) ignore the buildroot setting in
the spec file.  Use the --buildroot option to ensure the correct
buildroot is used.

.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
@@ -314,6 +317,7 @@ sub prep {
 		my $line=<$changelog>;
 		if ($line=~/^[^ ]+\s+\(([^)]+)\)\s/) {
 			my $version=$1;
+			$version=~s/\s+//; # ensure no whitespace
 			if ($version=~/(.*)-(.*)/) {
 				$version=$1;
 				$this->release($2);
@@ -331,10 +335,14 @@ sub prep {
 	print OUT $this->name." (".$this->version."-".$this->release.") experimental; urgency=low\n";
 	print OUT "\n";
 	print OUT "  * Converted from .".$this->origformat." format to .deb by alien version $Alien::Version\n";
+	print OUT "  \n";
+	if (defined $this->changelogtext) {
+		my $ct=$this->changelogtext;
+		$ct=~s/^/  /gm;
+		print OUT $ct."\n";
+	}
 	print OUT "\n";
 	print OUT " -- ".$this->username." <".$this->email.">  ".$this->date."\n";
-	print OUT "\n";
-	print OUT $this->changelogtext."\n" if defined $this->changelogtext;
 	close OUT;
 
 	# Control file.
@@ -676,7 +684,7 @@ sub email {
 		close MAILNAME;
 	}
 	if (!$mailname) {
-		$mailname=$this->runpipe(1, "hostname -f");
+		$mailname=$this->runpipe(1, "hostname");
 		chomp $mailname;
 	}
 	return "$login\@$mailname";
@@ -731,7 +739,7 @@ sub postinst {
 	return $postinst unless %$owninfo;
 	
 	my ($firstline, $rest)=split(/\n/, $postinst, 2);
-	if ($firstline !~ m/^#!\s*\/bin\/sh/) {
+	if ($firstline !~ m/^#!\s*\/bin\/(ba)?sh/) {
 		print STDERR "warning: unable to add ownership fixup code to postinst as the postinst is not a shell script!\n";
 		return $postinst;
 	}
@@ -747,7 +755,7 @@ sub postinst {
 	return "$firstline\n$permscript\n$rest";
 }
 
-=cut
+=back
 
 =head1 AUTHOR
 

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";
@@ -259,7 +262,7 @@ sub prep {
 #  	  grep {/^\./} readdir DIR;
 #  	closedir DIR;
 
-	$this->do("cd $dir; find . -print | pkgproto > ./prototype")
+	$this->do("cd $dir; find . -print | sed -e '/.\\/prototype\$/d' | pkgproto > ./prototype")
 		|| die "error during pkgproto: $!\n";
 
 	open(PKGPROTO, ">>$dir/prototype")
@@ -324,6 +327,8 @@ sub build {
 	return $name;
 }
 
+=back
+
 =head1 AUTHOR
 
 Mark Hershberger <mah@everybody.org>

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.
@@ -182,30 +187,45 @@ sub unpack {
 	#
 	# Test to see if the package contains the prefix directory already.
 	if (defined $this->prefixes && ! -e "$workdir/".$this->prefixes) {
+		my $relocate=1;
+
 		# Get the files to move.
 		my @filelist=glob("$workdir/*");
-
+		
 		# Now, make the destination directory.
 		my $collect=$workdir;
 		foreach (split m:/:, $this->prefixes) {
 			if ($_ ne '') { # this keeps us from using anything but relative paths.
 				$collect.="/$_";
+				if (-d $collect) {
+					# The package contains a parent
+					# directory of the relocation
+					# directory. Since it's impossible
+					# to move a parent directory into
+					# its child, bail out and do
+					# nothing.
+					$relocate=0;
+					last;
+				}
 				$this->do("mkdir", $collect) || die "unable to mkdir $collect: $!";
 			}
 		}
-		# Now move all files in the package to the directory we made.
-		if (@filelist) {
-			$this->do("mv", @filelist, "$workdir/".$this->prefixes)
-				or die "error moving unpacked files into the default prefix directory: $!";
-		}
 
-		# Deal with relocating conffiles.
+		if ($relocate) {
-		my @cf;
+			# Now move all files in the package to the directory we made.
-		foreach my $cf (@{$this->conffiles}) {
+			if (@filelist) {
-			$cf=$this->prefixes.$cf;
+				$this->do("mv", @filelist, "$workdir/".$this->prefixes)
-			push @cf, $cf;
+					or die "error moving unpacked files into the default prefix directory: $!";
+			}
+	
+			# Deal with relocating conffiles.
+			my @cf;
+			foreach my $cf (@{$this->conffiles}) {
+				$cf=$this->prefixes.$cf;
+				push @cf, $cf;
+			}
+			$this->conffiles([@cf]);
 		}
-		$this->conffiles([@cf]);
 	}
 	
 	# rpm files have two sets of permissions; the set in the cpio
@@ -219,6 +239,9 @@ sub unpack {
 	while (<GETPERMS>) {
 		chomp;
 		my ($mode, $owner, $group, $file) = split(/ /, $_, 4);
+
+		next if -l "$workdir/$file";
+
 		$mode = $mode & 07777; # remove filetype
 		my $uid = getpwnam($owner);
 		if (! defined $uid || $uid != 0) {
@@ -238,12 +261,10 @@ sub unpack {
 		if (defined($owninfo{$file}) && ($mode & 07000 > 0)) {
 			$modeinfo{$file} = sprintf "%lo", $mode;
 		}
-		next unless -e "$workdir/$file"; # skip broken links
 		if ($> == 0) {
 			$this->do("chown", "$uid:$gid", "$workdir/$file") 
 				|| die "failed chowning $file to $uid\:$gid\: $!";
 		}
-		next if -l "$workdir/$file"; # skip links
 		$this->do("chmod", sprintf("%lo", $mode), "$workdir/$file") 
 			|| die "failed changing mode of $file to $mode\: $!";
 	}
@@ -398,7 +419,9 @@ sub build {
 	}
 
 	$opts.=" $ENV{RPMBUILDOPT}" if exists $ENV{RPMBUILDOPT};
-	my $command="cd $dir; $buildcmd -bb $opts ".$this->name."-".$this->version."-".$this->release.".spec";
+	my $pwd=`pwd`;
+	chomp $pwd;
+	my $command="cd $dir; $buildcmd --buildroot=$pwd/$dir -bb $opts ".$this->name."-".$this->version."-".$this->release.".spec";
 	my $log=$this->runpipe(1, "$command 2>&1");
 	if ($?) {
 		die "Package build failed. Here's the log of the command ($command):\n", $log;
@@ -443,11 +466,16 @@ debian/slackware scripts can be anything -- perl programs or binary files
 -- and rpm is limited to only shell scripts, we need to encode the files
 and add a scrap of shell script to make it unextract and run on the fly.
 
-When setting a value, we do some mangling too. Rpm maitainer scripts
+When setting a value, we do some mangling too. Rpm maintainer scripts
-are typically shell scripts, but often lack the leading #!/bin/sh
+are typically shell scripts, but often lack the leading shebang line.
-This can confuse dpkg, so add the #!/bin/sh if it looks like there
+This can confuse dpkg, so add the shebang if it looks like there
 is no shebang magic already in place.
 
+Additionally, it's not uncommon for rpm maintainer scripts to contain
+bashisms, which can be triggered when they are ran on systems where /bin/sh
+is not bash. To work around this, the shebang line of the scripts is
+changed to use bash.
+
 Also, if the rpm is relocatable, the script could refer to
 RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX, which is set by rpm at run time. Deal with this by
 adding code to the script to set RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX.
@@ -469,9 +497,10 @@ sub _script_helper {
 
 		my $value=shift;
 		if (length $value and $value !~ m/^#!\s*\//) {
-			$value="#!/bin/sh\n$prefixcode$value";
+			$value="#!/bin/bash\n$prefixcode$value";
 		}
 		else {
+			$value=~s@^#!\s*/bin/sh(\s)@#!/bin/bash$1@;
 			$value=~s/\n/\n$prefixcode/s;
 		}
 		$this->{$script} = $value;

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
@@ -355,6 +358,8 @@ sub release {
 }
 
 
+=back
+
 =head1 AUTHOR
 
 Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>

Alien/Package/Tgz.pm

@@ -9,10 +9,14 @@ Alien::Package::Tgz - an object that represents a tgz package
 package Alien::Package::Tgz;
 use strict;
 use base qw(Alien::Package);
+use Cwd qw(abs_path);
+
+my $tarext=qr/\.(?:tgz|tar(?:\.(?:gz|Z|z|bz|bz2))?|taz)$/;
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
 This is an object class that represents a tgz package, as used in Slackware. 
+It also allows conversion of raw tar files.
 It is derived from Alien::Package.
 
 =head1 CLASS DATA
@@ -49,7 +53,7 @@ sub checkfile {
         my $this=shift;
         my $file=shift;
 
-        return $file =~ m/.*\.(?:tgz|tar\.(?:gz|Z|z)|taz)$/;
+        return $file =~ m/$tarext$/;
 }
 
 =item install
@@ -66,8 +70,11 @@ 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"
@@ -90,9 +97,9 @@ sub scan {
 	my ($basename)=('/'.$file)=~m#^/?.*/(.*?)$#;
 
 	# Strip out any tar extentions.
-	$basename=~s/\.(tgz|tar\.(gz|Z))$//;
+	$basename=~s/$tarext//;
 
-	if ($basename=~m/(.*)-(.*?[0-9]+.*)/) {
+	if ($basename=~m/([\w-]+)-([0-9\.?]+).*/) {
 		$this->name($1);
 		$this->version($2);
 	}
@@ -103,11 +110,11 @@ sub scan {
 
 	$this->arch('all');
 
-	$this->summary("Converted Slackware tgz package");
+	$this->summary("Converted tgz package");
 	$this->description($this->summary);
 	$this->copyright('unknown');
 	$this->release(1);
-	$this->distribution("Slackware");
+	$this->distribution("Slackware/tarball");
 	$this->group("unknown");
 	$this->origformat('tgz');
 	$this->changelogtext('');
@@ -116,7 +123,7 @@ sub scan {
 	# Now figure out the conffiles. Assume anything in etc/ is a
 	# conffile.
 	my @conffiles;
-	open (FILELIST,"tar zvtf $file | grep etc/ |") ||
+	open (FILELIST,"tar vtf $file | grep etc/ |") ||
 		die "getting filelist: $!";
 	while (<FILELIST>) {
 		# Make sure it's a normal file. This is looking at the
@@ -133,7 +140,7 @@ sub scan {
 	# Now get the whole filelist. We have to add leading /'s to the
 	# filenames. We have to ignore all files under /install/
 	my @filelist;
-	open (FILELIST, "tar ztf $file |") ||
+	open (FILELIST, "tar tf $file |") ||
 		die "getting filelist: $!";
 	while (<FILELIST>) {
 		chomp;
@@ -145,7 +152,7 @@ sub scan {
 
 	# Now get the scripts.
 	foreach my $script (keys %{scripttrans()}) {
-		$this->$script(scalar $this->runpipe(1, "tar Oxzf $file install/${scripttrans()}{$script} 2>/dev/null"));
+		$this->$script(scalar $this->runpipe(1, "tar Oxf $file install/${scripttrans()}{$script} 2>/dev/null"));
 	}
 
 	return 1;
@@ -160,9 +167,9 @@ Unpack tgz.
 sub unpack {
 	my $this=shift;
 	$this->SUPER::unpack(@_);
-	my $file=$this->filename;
+	my $file=abs_path($this->filename);
 
-	$this->do("cat $file | (cd ".$this->unpacked_tree."; tar zxpf -)")
+	$this->do("cd ".$this->unpacked_tree."; tar xpf $file")
 		or die "Unpacking of '$file' failed: $!";
 	# Delete the install directory that has slackware info in it.
 	$this->do("cd ".$this->unpacked_tree."; rm -rf ./install");
@@ -215,6 +222,8 @@ sub build {
 	return $tgz;
 }
 
+=back
+
 =head1 AUTHOR
 
 Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>

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 +1,94 @@
+alien (8.78) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Add support for rpm 4.7.0, which ignores the buildroot setting in the
+    spec file, by passing --buildroot. (Thanks, Pavel Roskin)
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:53:05 -0400
+
+alien (8.77) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Don't allow whitespace in package version when parsing debian/changelog.
+  * In rpm permission fixup code, avoid processing symlinks since that
+    would result in the file the link points to being "fixed". Closes: #535586
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:37:01 -0400
+
+alien (8.76) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Avoid using hostname -f for portability to unix systems,
+    such as Solaris, where any options _set_ the hostname.
+  * Fix bash shebang and recognise bash scripts as editable
+    shell scripts when converting to deb. Closes: #532330
+    (Thanks, Bruce Stephens)
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:22:35 -0400
+
+alien (8.75) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Simplified rules file.
+  * Modify maintainer scripts from rpm files to use /bin/bash rather
+    than /bin/sh. Many such scripts are only tested on systems where /bin/sh
+    is bash, and contain bashisms, which can cause trouble when converting
+    the rpm to be used on eg, the Debian family of distributions, where
+    /bin/sh can legitimatly be dash. Closes: #495971
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 06 May 2009 17:22:02 -0400
+
+alien (8.74) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Support bzipped and uncompressed tar files, using tar's auto-compression
+    detection. (Requires gnu tar 1.14.91)
+  * pod fixes
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:51:54 -0500
+
+alien (8.73) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix pkg generation to not include /prototype in all packages.
+    (Kim Bisgaard)
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:43:47 -0400
+
+alien (8.72) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Use debhelper 7, rules file minimisation.
+  * Improve parsing of tgz filenames, to avoid confusion when the filename
+    includes the package type (ie, "noarch"). Patch from Andrej Ricnik-Bay.
+  * When generating a debian changelog file, work around bug #478925 by
+    including the alien changelog text inside the debian changelog entry.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 01 May 2008 15:40:34 -0400
+
+alien (8.71) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Deal with rpms that relocate ie, /usr into /usr/local, and don't
+    try to move /usr into /usr/local in this case. Closes: #470905
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:35:33 -0400
+
+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/compat

@@ -1 +1 @@
-4
+7

debian/control

@@ -1,17 +1,18 @@
 Source: alien
 Section: admin
 Priority: optional
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4), dpkg-dev (>= 1.9.0)
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50)
 Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
-Standards-Version: 3.7.2
+Standards-Version: 3.8.1
-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/docs

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+README
+gendiff.txt

debian/rules

@@ -1,47 +1,20 @@
 #!/usr/bin/make -f
+%:
+	dh $@
 
-build: build-stamp
+override_dh_auto_test:
-build-stamp:
-	dh_testdir
-	perl Makefile.PL
-	$(MAKE)
 	# simple smoke test
 	./alien.pl -V
-	touch build-stamp
 
-clean:
+override_dh_auto_install:
-	dh_testdir
-	dh_testroot
-	rm -f build-stamp
-	perl Makefile.PL
-	-$(MAKE) realclean
-	dh_clean
-
-binary-arch: build
-
-binary-indep: build
-	dh_testdir
-	dh_testroot
-	dh_clean -k
 	$(MAKE) pure_install INSTALLDIRS=vendor \
 		PREFIX=$(shell pwd)/debian/alien/$(shell perl -MConfig -e 'print $$Config{prefix}') \
 		VARPREFIX=$(shell pwd)/debian/alien
-	# Why does it make this empty directory? Sigh.
+
-	rm -rf debian/alien/usr/lib
+override_dh_auto_clean:
-	dh_installdocs README gendiff.txt
+	# distclean moans about MANIFEST, this is quieter
-	dh_installexamples
+	if [ -e Makefile ]; then $(MAKE) realclean; fi
-	dh_installchangelogs
-	dh_compress
-	dh_fixperms
-	dh_perl
-	dh_installdeb
-	dh_gencontrol
-	dh_md5sums
-	dh_builddeb
 
 # Not intended for use by anyone except the author.
 announcedir:
 	@echo ${HOME}/src/joeywiki/code/alien/news
-
-binary: binary-indep binary-arch
-.PHONY: build clean binary-indep binary-arch binary