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Package: alien
Version: 8.60
Severity: normal
First of all I am not sure if this is a package bug, or alien bug. But
report it anyway.
I have downloaded kydpdict package (no debian native package) from:
http://bossstation.dnsalias.org/kydpdict/
(full url:
http://bossstation.dnsalias.org/kydpdict/kydpdict-0.9.0-1.i686.rpm)
run as root:
$ alien kydpdict-0.9.0-1.i686.rpm
It created kydpdict_0.9.0-2_i386.deb in /root.
I installed it, but it mysteriously installed itself in /%{prefix} (root
directory), which I think is wrong.
Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14rg
Locale: LANG=pl_PL, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL (charmap=ISO-8859-2)
Versions of packages alien depends on:
ii cpio 2.6-9 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii debhelper 5.0.10 helper programs for debian/rules
ii dpkg-dev 1.13.11 package building tools for Debian
ii make 3.80+3.81.b3-1 The GNU version of the "make" util
ii perl 5.8.7-9 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii rpm 4.4.1-4 Red Hat package manager
alien recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Robert Gomułka wrote:
> First of all I am not sure if this is a package bug, or alien bug. But
> report it anyway.
> I have downloaded kydpdict package (no debian native package) from:
> http://bossstation.dnsalias.org/kydpdict/
> (full url:
> http://bossstation.dnsalias.org/kydpdict/kydpdict-0.9.0-1.i686.rpm)
> run as root:
> $ alien kydpdict-0.9.0-1.i686.rpm
> It created kydpdict_0.9.0-2_i386.deb in /root.
> I installed it, but it mysteriously installed itself in /%{prefix} (root
> directory), which I think is wrong.
> Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
This rpm has its prefixes field set to "%{prefix}":
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>rpm -qp --queryformat '%{prefixes}\n' kydpdict-0.9.0-1.i6
%{prefix}
That's very broken. alien does what it does to any relocatable package,
and adds the default prefix to the files in the package.
As far as I can see there is no alien bug here, just a broken package.
Of course relocatable rpms are very poorly specified and there are at
least two different ways this is handled, and it's always possible that
you've found yet a third way, but until I see documentation about it I'm
assuming it's the rpm at fault and alien does not need to be changed.
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