Subject: alien: Fails to convert a 'noarch' RPM to deb
Package: alien
Version: 8.82
Severity: normal
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When converting a 'noarch' RPM to a deb package, alien fails with
the message: "Radiator-4.7-1.noarch.rpm is for architecture all ;
the package cannot be built on this system". As Radiator is written
in pure Perl, I would assume the architecture check to always pass.
The ARCH in the RPM is a true 'noarch':
$ rpm -qp --queryformat %{ARCH} Radiator-4.7-1.noarch.rpm; echo ""
noarch
$
In Alien::Package::Deb, dpkg-architecture is called
'dpkg-architecture -i.$arch' (where $arch == 'all' in my case), but according
to the dpkg-architecture man page, -i should be followed by a
'architecture-wildcard' defined as:
"An architecture wildcard is a special architecture string that will match any
real architecture being part of it. The general form is <kernel>-<cpu>.
Examples: linux-any, any-i386, hurd-any."
Shouldn't 'noarch' be translated to 'any' instead of 'all'?
For completeness: on the build system, dpkg-architecture reports:
$ dpkg-architecture
DEB_BUILD_ARCH=i386
DEB_BUILD_ARCH_OS=linux
DEB_BUILD_ARCH_CPU=i386
DEB_BUILD_ARCH_BITS=32
DEB_BUILD_ARCH_ENDIAN=little
DEB_BUILD_GNU_CPU=i486
DEB_BUILD_GNU_SYSTEM=linux-gnu
DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE=i486-linux-gnu
DEB_HOST_ARCH=i386
DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS=linux
DEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU=i386
DEB_HOST_ARCH_BITS=32
DEB_HOST_ARCH_ENDIAN=little
DEB_HOST_GNU_CPU=i486
DEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM=linux-gnu
DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE=i486-linux-gnu
$
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (800, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages alien depends on:
ii cpio 2.9-13lenny1 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii debhelper 8.0.0 helper programs for debian/rules
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.8.4 Debian package development tools
ii make 3.81-5 The GNU version of the "make" util
ii perl 5.10.0-19lenny2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii rpm 4.8.1-5 package manager for RPM
ii rpm2cpio 4.8.1-5 tool to convert RPM package to CPI
alien recommends no packages.
Versions of packages alien suggests:
ii bzip2 1.0.5-1 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii lintian 2.4.3 Debian package checker
pn lsb-rpm <none> (no description available)
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
ii patch 2.5.9-5 Apply a diff file to an original
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