Re: tlug: Package converter

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Andrew S. Howell wrote:

> 
> Just came across this, and thought it might be useful to the list. I
> haven't tried it yet.
> 
> http://www.kitenet.net/programs/alien/
> 
> Alien is a program that converts between the rpm, dpkg, and slackware
> tgz file formats. If you want to use a package from another
> distribution than the one you have installed on your system, you can
> use alien to convert it to your preferred package format and install
> it.

does it do a good job of rpm <-> deb ?  I've heard of this package, but
never actually used it myself.  It seems like it would be complicated to
convert all the required dependencies, etc, since rpm and deb do them a
little differently.  ie, if a .deb package 'requires' foo and 'recommends'
bar, what do the .rpm dependencies look like after conversion?

> 
> Andy
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