Re: alien not y2k compliant?
Brian Servis wrote: Since you did not get a suggestion about dpkg-dev I assume you are using a version prior to 6.26. Just to make sure, do you have dpkg-dev installed? In slink dpkg-dev was only a Recommends dependency for alien, in potato it is a Depends dependency. Thanks Brian -- that's almost certianly his problem. Alien doesn't parse any dates, just looks at 822-date's return code. -- see shy jo
alien not y2k compliant?
Ok...
I'm trying to scan myself and build a nice little security tool. This
is the first thing I've run into but still
{0}:wally:/usr/src/Util-System/nmapalien -d nmap-2.3BETA12*rpm
-- Examining nmap-2.3BETA12-1.i386.rpm
-- Unpacking nmap-2.3BETA12-1.i386.rpm
1222 blocks
-- Automatic package debianization
alien: 822-date did not return a valid result.
:wq!
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Re: alien not y2k compliant?
*- On 1 Jan, Robert L. Harris wrote about alien not y2k compliant?
Ok...
I'm trying to scan myself and build a nice little security tool. This
is the first thing I've run into but still
{0}:wally:/usr/src/Util-System/nmapalien -d nmap-2.3BETA12*rpm
-- Examining nmap-2.3BETA12-1.i386.rpm
-- Unpacking nmap-2.3BETA12-1.i386.rpm
1222 blocks
-- Automatic package debianization
alien: 822-date did not return a valid result.
A quick look through the changelog for the versions between slink and
potato didn't show and y2k fixes but I did find the following:
alien (6.26) unstable; urgency=low
* If 822-date fails, the error now suggests installing dpkg-dev. This is
way up there in the alien faw(sic, faq) and I'm tired of answering it.
Since you did not get a suggestion about dpkg-dev I assume you are using
a version prior to 6.26. Just to make sure, do you have dpkg-dev
installed? In slink dpkg-dev was only a Recommends dependency for
alien, in potato it is a Depends dependency.
Brian Servis
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