Package alien

[Yaakov Nemoy]

On Dec 5, 2007 11:19 AM, Zdenek Prikryl <zprikryl at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hmm after little investigation I found, that convert deb, tgz, slp to rpm isn't
> problem. But reverse conversion is big problem. For example, if I want to
> convert rmp do deb, I have to have installed dpkg[-dev] and debhelper, which are
> debian packages for creating deb files. All of those packages aren't in fedora
> repos.

Debian has the inverse, namely, it has all the packages to create RPMs.

+1 if the ability to turn RPMs into DEBs show up.  It could make
getting multi-distro support for Smolt easier.

-Yaakov