i could convert quake-gl and svncviewrdebs to rpms with a little perl
hacking of alien.
Alien rocks
Cheerio
Robin
Sthitaprajna wrote:
>
> On 6 Jul 00, at 3:06, Rajil Saraswat wrote:
>
> > hey debs sure do work out on RH. there does exist a utility which install
> > debs on RH. check out Mandrake7.1, there exists a utility somewhere around
> > there to do this.
>
> Well, yes...there does exist an util called alien, that does this
> stuff, but I don't exactly love it...I tried to convert some and do
> the work, but was pretty unsuccessful. And you would'nt want to screw
> up your hdd with a newly created software just for the heck of having
> converting it with alien, would you?
>
> Anyway, Alienisavailableat :
> http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/contrib/noarch/noarch/alien-6.53-
> 3.noarch.html
>
> -Rgds
>
> PS: If you try it and get a successful build, do post to the list.
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