On Monday 04 November 2002 09:51, thomas sch�nhoff wrote:
> Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote:
> >On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 01:36:55PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins
wrote:
> >>On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 08:09:18PM +0100, Thomas Templin wrote:
> >>>On Thursday 31 October 2002 19:36, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote:
> >>>>I would be happy to be the RPM coordinator. I just need a
> >>>> loose collection of people with different system setups who
> >>>> are willing to "--rebuild" the source rpm and send the
> >>>> results back to me.
> >>>
> >>>BTW, whats about *.deb Packages? *duck'n'run* :)
> >>
> >>Debian already has packages, though only for
> >> 1.1.6fixsomething, at the moment.
> >
> >I don't run debian, but isn't there some sort of "alien"
> > program which can turn an RPM into a .deb?
> >
> > ---Kayvan
>
> There might be a good chance to create deb packages form tar.gz
> by using checkinstall. I did it serveral times and it worked.
> I don't know if these packages are really GNU/Linux compatible,
> at least I can report good experiences by creating RPMs which
> work well for RH7.2!
The only problem is the dependency to xforms 1.xx.
Due there is no Debian xforms 1.x package up to now it has to be
added by a LyX packet maintainer.
To my opinion it would be the best place to have it in a download
directory together with a LyX deb package.
May be the best sollution wil be to build deb Packages from a
Knoppix CD. dpkg-repack could be used to create a deb Package from
a Knoppix CD. In the Moment Knoppix performs LyX 1.2.1 and Xforms
libforms1 1.0-0.RC4.1.
May I send a CD with the LyX and xforms DEBs to one of the managers
of the download directory?
So give me a address and the DEBs wil be on the way within this
week.
bye,
Thomas
