Hi Dne Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:35:47 +0200 Bastian Blank <wa...@debian.org> napsal(a):
> 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.
What means does not work? Did you use the mentioned switch?
Also what is advantage of installing source package to extracting it?
And sorry, but I don't see anything grave in this bug report.
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