Package: alien Version: 8.81 Severity: normal I downloaded the citizen pos thermal printer driver source rpm from the citizen site wanting to build it for armhf
http://www.citizen-systems.com/Pages/UisSupport/drivers/linux_cups/ctzpos-cups-1.0.3-0.src.rpm When attempting to convert this rpm to deb alien would claim to convert the rpm to the wrong architecture and not produce any output file while doing so. (this system is amd64 archtecture) jasen@crackle:/tmp/b$ fakeroot alien --to-deb ctzpos-cups-1.0.3-0.src.rpm ctzpos-cups_1.0.3-1_i386.deb generated jasen@crackle:/tmp/b$ ls ctzpos-cups-1.0.3-0.src.rpm It looks like that .rpm may contain a bad .spec file (spec file says "BuildArch: i386"), but I would have expected some diagnostics from alien. as the build process for the binary components was trivial in the end I hand-assembled a binary .deb package and ainstalled that successfully. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.7 APT prefers oldstable-updates APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_NZ.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages alien depends on: ii cpio 2.11-4 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar ii debhelper 8.0.0 helper programs for debian/rules ii dpkg-dev 1.15.8.13 Debian package development tools ii make 3.81-8 An utility for Directing compilati ii perl 5.10.1-17squeeze6 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii rpm 4.8.1-6+squeeze1 package manager for RPM ii rpm2cpio 4.8.1-6+squeeze1 tool to convert RPM package to CPI alien recommends no packages. Versions of packages alien suggests: ii bzip2 1.0.5-6+squeeze1 high-quality block-sorting file co pn lintian <none> (no description available) pn lsb-rpm <none> (no description available) pn lzma <none> (no description available) ii patch 2.6-2 Apply a diff file to an original -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
