> 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.
I'm not a Debian user, but I think that Debian has a means of importing rpms. You can always use rpm2cpio to get a cpio archive out of an rpm, and rpm can be had packages as a not-rpm (or could be some time ago) for those who don't use rpm as their primary packaging tool. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.
