On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:00:22PM +0200, Andreas L. Gustafsson wrote: > > First step is to port the Debian package of rpm and check if cpio and alien > > do work on the Hurd (they should). > > Port the Debian package of rpm? Wouldn't just compile rpm from sources and > making that work be the most portable way?
This has nothing to do with portability, but compiling the Debian package of rpm is a way to get a usable rpm while also contributing to Debian GNU/Hurd. And this is the Debian GNU/Hurd mailing list, right? > Or am I missing something > important now? I don't know, but the purpose of the mailing list is to discuss the development of Debian GNU/Hurd, and our mission is to provide a Debian GNU/Hurd binary distribution. > BTW, I don't think I've ever heard of 'alien' what is that? It is a program to convert debs, tars, rpms into each other. This way you could convert the whole Debian distribution into rpm format, and we could convert zour rpms into debs. Marcus
