Package: rpm Version: 4.7.0-9 Severity: grave rpm refused to install source rpm, aka extract the source of packages.
| $ rpm -i lvm2-2.02.51-3.fc12.src.rpm | rpm: please use alien to install rpm packages on Debian, if you are really sure use --force-debian switch. See README.Debian for more details. The rpm tool have two uses in Debian. - Install (aka extract) source packages that also come in rpm format, - extract binary packages and - install binary packages, which needs to be used really carefully. The first two are the only really usefull tasks, one of them does not work anymore. Bastian -- Spock: The odds of surviving another attack are 13562190123 to 1, Captain. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
