Re: DB2 progress - success!

1999-01-22 Thread Colin McCormack
DB2 success! Joey Hess clued me in, the RPM scripts weren't being run, so I changed the /bin/rpm hack script to this: #!/bin/sh alien --to-deb --scripts -i $2 With the noted symlinks: > /bin/awk -> /usr/bin/gawk > /bin/basename -> /usr/bin/basename > /bin/compress -> /usr/bin/compress > /bin/g

Re: DB2 progress

1999-01-22 Thread Joey Hess
Colin McCormack wrote: > Doesn't alien run the post installation instructions in the rpm? Not unless you convert it with alien --scripts. The chance that the postinst just won't work on a redhat system is too large (imho) to make it on by default. -- see shy jo

Re: DB2 progress

1999-01-22 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 03:38:06PM +1100, Colin McCormack wrote: > > > > Here's what I have so far: > > > > > > I created a /bin/rpm file as follows: > > > #!/bin/sh > > > > > > alien --to-deb -i $2 > > > rpm2deb for DB2 installations are not a good idea since it does a whole > > bunch ofstuf

Re: DB2 progress

1999-01-22 Thread Colin McCormack
> > Here's what I have so far: > > > > I created a /bin/rpm file as follows: > > #!/bin/sh > > > > alien --to-deb -i $2 > rpm2deb for DB2 installations are not a good idea since it does a whole bunch > ofstuff at the end like addusers and updates database configuration. Best > thing to do wo

Re: DB2 progress

1999-01-22 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 02:32:21PM +1100, Colin McCormack wrote: > Hi, > > I'm also struggling with the installation of DB2 under debian. > > Here's what I have so far: > > I created a /bin/rpm file as follows: > #!/bin/sh > > alien --to-deb -i $2 > > I symlinked the following: > /bin/awk -> /