That is fine if you have the opportunity to issue the Alien command. In
this case what was proposed was a system that issued the rpm command for
you and expected that to result in the installation.
"Post, Mark K"
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to Linux on 390
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I'm not very familiar with Debian at all, but I was under the impression
that this is what "alien" is for on that platform. Am I wrong?
Mark Post
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From: David Goodenough [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 6:10 PM
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Subject: Re: Current Linux/390 Distributions Aren't Cheap
Its not their Linux for S/390 stuff I am concerned about, it is things like
DB2, Websphere and Eclipse. The WSAD team for instance have recently been
talking about making their updates available as a process reliant on RPM
being available under the covers, which would definitely have problems on
Debian. Now this is not unique to S/390, it is a problem on x86 as well.
David
