Bug 64412
| Summary: | 7.3 GOLD: alien doesnt run | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Stephen John Smoogen <smooge> |
| Component: | alien | Assignee: | Jeff Johnson <jbj> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.3 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2002-06-05 19:10:26 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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*** Bug 61288 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** alien is being dropped. |
The alien package in 7.3 is 'broken' in many cases. The first problem is that the package is built against the original 7.2 perl-5.6.0 versus the 7.3 perl-5.6.1 The second is that in trying to convert a deb package to an rpm I get the following: smoogen:{temp}$ alien -r sourceforge_2.6-0+11_all.deb Warning: alien is not running as root! Ownerships of files in the generated packages will probably be messed up. --target=noarch: unknown option package build failed at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/Alien/Package/Rpm.pm line 356. smoogen:{temp}$ sudo bash Password: root:{temp}# alien -r sourceforge_2.6-0+11_all.deb --target=noarch: unknown option package build failed at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/Alien/Package/Rpm.pm line 356. Looking at the alien web page there is an 'additional' needed for non-debian machines called 'alien-extras'. I am going to look at both of these packages and see if I can come up with new RPM etc files for people. Sorry for not testing this sooner.