Chris Yeoh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Whilst attempting to convert an RPM package to a deb package using > alien I noticed that alien appears to have problems with preserving > the ownership of files if the user accounts do not (yet) exist on the > system on which the conversion is done. For this specific package the > user accounts are created by scripts just before the installation of > the files occurs. alien did work correctly when run on a system which > had the user accounts. > > I don't know how hard it would be to enhance alien to handle this. > > Do we need to add a note to the specification that requires that the > RPM packages only rely on the ownership of files being preserved if > those files are owned by user accounts required to exist by the LSB > spec?
This would be bad for packages which need special ownership - e.g. databases and such. I'd rather fix alien. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc.
