Package: alien
Version: 8.64
As reported in the LSB bug tracker
(http://bugs.linuxbase.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1638):
Installing RPM using the command 'alien -ick file.rpm' seems not to
work well -- it doesn't execute pre- and post- scripts from the .rpm
file.
Converting a .rpm file to .deb and
Jeff Licquia wrote:
As reported in the LSB bug tracker
(http://bugs.linuxbase.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1638):
Installing RPM using the command 'alien -ick file.rpm' seems not to
work well -- it doesn't execute pre- and post- scripts from the .rpm
file.
Converting a .rpm file to .deb and then
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 13:44 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
All -i does is install the exact same .deb that alien would generate
otherwise, and then unlink it. This should not change the behavior WRT
dpkg running scripts.
The only difference might be that since alien /dev/nulls command outputs
It seems, from analysis of the code, that this is the expected behavior,
but it was certainly unexpected from our point of view. At minimum,
this difference between install mode and non-install mode should be
documented.
I don't see anything in the code that would suggest it's expected, or
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