Package: rpm
Version: 4.4.2.1-1
Severity: normal
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp>rpm -qp --queryformat '%{VERSION}\n'
~/archivemail-0.6.1-3.ae.src.rpm
rpm: To install rpm packages on Debian systems, use alien. See README.Debian.
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
warning: /home/joey/archivemail-0.6.1-3.ae.src.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature:
NOKEY, key ID 4e6c9f5e
0.6.1You don't need to open the database to query a field out of a package. Since alien itself uses rpm -qp extensively, this causes alien itself to spew rpm errors suggesting to use alien! -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages rpm depends on: ii libbeecrypt6 4.1.2-6 open source C library of cryptogra ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.3-7 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc6 2.6.1-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcomerr2 1.40.2-1 common error description library ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-2 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libpopt0 1.10-3 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii librpm4.4 4.4.2.1-1 RPM shared library ii libselinux1 2.0.15-2+b1 SELinux shared libraries ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-3 SSL shared libraries ii perl 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-7 compression library - runtime rpm recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- see shy jo
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