Re: tlug: Draft of June 13 TLUG General Meeting Announcement

[Manuel Chakravarty <chak@example.com>]

Scott Stone <sstone@example.com> wrote,
> On Tue, 26 May 1998, Manuel Chakravarty wrote:
> 
> > "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com> wrote,
> > 
[...]
> > > I have no idea, because ...
> > > 
> > > 			    DEBIAN RULES!
> > > 
> > > :-)
> > > 
> > > Get alien*.rpm and install the debian-jp version of VFlib.
> > 
> > Hmm, last time I tried to install the debian package manager
> > from source I got an unmotivated compile error.  Hence, I
> > left the thing alone.  (In contrast to RPM, which was
> > installed in 5 minutes...)
> > 
> > Anyway, I'll try the alien stuff and make my Linux
> > installation completely messy...
> 
> Wait! Wait! have you tried the TurboLinux-J VFLib RPM package yet?  Try
> that first:
> 
> ftp.pht.co.jp:/pub/turbolinuxj/1.4/TurboUpgrade/RPMS
> 
> if it's not there, try:
> 
> ftp.pht.co.jp:/pub/turbolinuxj/1.0/TurboLinux/RPMS

Oh, great!  I found it in the latter directory.  Actually, I
already managed to install `alien.rpm' and tried to convert
the Debian-JP package, but it failed with

> greyarea:/tmp# alien -r vflib_2.22pl10-1.deb 
> -- Examining vflib_2.22pl10-1.deb
> -- Unpacking vflib_2.22pl10-1.deb
> -- Automatic spec file generation
> -- Building the package /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/vflib-2.22pl10-2.i386.rpm
> * Package: vflib
> Field must be present    : Description
> 
> Spec file check failed!!
> Tell rpm-list@example.com if this is incorrect.
> 
> alien: Error putting together the RPM package.

Anyway, the TurboLinux package seemed to install without any 
problems!  Thanks very much!

Manuel

P.S.: Sorry, Steve, but this is the second time that
      cross-installing from Debian doesn't work for me.
      Maybe it is my fault and maybe everything works much
      nicer when you stay in a pure Debian environment, but
      so far, RPM seems to be more robust to me.
      Nevertheless, thanks for your comments!
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Next TLUG Meeting: 13 June Sat, Tokyo Station Yaesu gate 12:30
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