Re: Keeping dependencies when running alien

2006-08-03 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Thursday 03 August 2006 13:53, Joey Hess wrote: > Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > > So, how do I instruct alien to convert these dependencies over? > > You can't. For starters, not one of the dependencies you listed from the > rpm is a package name; debs support only package name dependencies. For > a

Re: Keeping dependencies when running alien

2006-08-03 Thread Joey Hess
Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > So, how do I instruct alien to convert these dependencies over? You can't. For starters, not one of the dependencies you listed from the rpm is a package name; debs support only package name dependencies. For another, there's no consistency of package names across distrib

Keeping dependencies when running alien

2006-08-03 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
I'm trying to use alien to convert a vendor's RPM to .deb. Mainly so I can install it cleanly, but also to help them out. The REQUIRENAME from the RPM has this (x is the app...X'ed out due to the fact that this is a beta test, and I'm not sure how much news they want in public): /bin/