Bug#504197: No support in alien for 64-bit s390 packages

2008-11-07 Thread zlinuxman
It is possible that I may have opened this bug against the wrong package. If so, please transfer this bug report to the appropriate package. Here's a console log from an attempted package build: - debian2:~# alien -c gsk7bas64-7.0-3.13.s390x.rpm Package build failed. Here

Bug#504197: No support in alien for 64-bit s390 packages

2008-11-01 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Alien appears to have no support for this. It does not recognize s390x > specified in rpm packages as valid for the Debian s390 architecture, > does not recognize the format of many 64-bit format packages, such as > shared libraries (.so files), etc. Alien doesn't read

Bug#504197: No support in alien for 64-bit s390 packages

2008-11-01 Thread zlinuxman
Package: alien Version: 8.64 Other Linux distributions, such as Redhat and Suse, treat the 64-bit IBM mainframe architecture (s390x) as a completely separate architecture from the 32-bit IBM mainframe architecture (s390). Debian treats the 64-bit IBM mainframe architecture as an extension of the