Re: Re: [RFC] Binary pecl packages

the rpm database is completly seperate from the apt database, which means it probably will break the system because of conflicting deps of the debs and rpm packages... what we usualy do on debian is, when we have only a rpm and we don't want to compile by hand[tm], we convert the rpm to a deb, its kinda "experimentel" but it often works. the tool for that is called alien. This allows to install the converted packages with using the apt database to have a consistant debian system. Mirco On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 02:04, Gareth Ardron wrote: > On Thursday 19 June 2003 12:39 am, Ken Tossell wrote: > > > > > > Windows is the primary platform we need binaries for. > > And many major Linux distributions do not support RPM... > > But would that matter? > > Slackware users are used to compiling everything by hand - having only rpm's > avaliable is pretty common to them, so they won't care provided the source is > to hand > > Debian users..well, somebody'll package it anyway within no time, and if they > don't then again, we're all used to having only .rpm's avaliable and building > from source. > > I honestly can't remember about suse and rpms, so I'm not going to go there. > > But deb and slack are the 2 really major distros which don't support rpms. > Infact, a quick apt-cache search rpm seems to suggest > there's a version of > rpm for debian as well. > > Can't honestly think of any other major distro that doesn't support it. > > -- > Gareth Ardron