Package: alien Version: 8.86 Severity: normal I'm running alien in a directory where I have just unpacked a source tar.gz file and made it into deb. This means the directory <program-name>-<source-version> exists. As in this simulation:
fettuce$ mkdir paa-1 fettuce$ alien -r paa_1-2_all.deb Warning: alien is not running as root! Warning: Ownerships of files in the generated packages will probably be wrong. mkdir: cannot create directory `paa-1': File exists unable to mkdir paa-1: at /usr/share/perl5/Alien/Package.pm line 257. fettuce$ Without my mkdir command it runs correctly. Obviously, it is not for the user to "second guess" what name alien is going to want to use for its work directory. Perhaps alien could use mktemp to generate the name of the work directory or maybe use mktemp to make a sandbox in which alien could use any name it wanted? Let me know if you need more info! Thanks and greetings Alexis -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (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 alien depends on: ii cpio 2.11-4 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar ii debhelper 8.0.0 helper programs for debian/rules ii dpkg-dev 1.15.8.10 Debian package development tools ii make 3.81-8 An utility for Directing compilati ii perl 5.10.1-17squeeze2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii rpm 4.8.1-6 package manager for RPM ii rpm2cpio 4.8.1-6 tool to convert RPM package to CPI alien recommends no packages. Versions of packages alien suggests: ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 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 2.6-2 Apply a diff file to an original -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
