> It seems, from analysis of the code, that this is the expected behavior,
> but it was certainly unexpected from our point of view. At minimum,
> this difference between install mode and non-install mode should be
> documented.
I don't see anything in the code that would suggest it's expected,
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 13:44 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> All -i does is install the exact same .deb that alien would generate
> otherwise, and then unlink it. This should not change the behavior WRT
> dpkg running scripts.
>
> The only difference might be that since alien /dev/nulls command outputs
Jeff Licquia wrote:
> As reported in the LSB bug tracker
> (http://bugs.linuxbase.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1638):
>
> "Installing RPM using the command 'alien -ick .rpm' seems not to
> work well -- it doesn't execute pre- and post- scripts from the .rpm
> file.
>
> "Converting a .rpm file to .deb and
Package: alien
Version: 8.64
As reported in the LSB bug tracker
(http://bugs.linuxbase.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1638):
"Installing RPM using the command 'alien -ick .rpm' seems not to
work well -- it doesn't execute pre- and post- scripts from the .rpm
file.
"Converting a .rpm file to .deb and then i
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