Myles Dear created ticket #7

Please add support for —to-ipk for Yocto ARMv8 opkg environment

Alan Alberghini created ticket #6

Missing support for zstd archives

Vincenzo Zocca created ticket #5

Ownership problem *.deb ==> *.rpm

Ildar Mulyukov posted a comment on ticket #1

The patch is great. I think we also need an option for additional exclusions.

Martin Burchell created ticket #4

Permission denied when /tmp mounted noexec

han.k modified a comment on ticket #1

The fix didn't work for me. File conflict while installing. The lines %dir "/usr/share/applications/" is not accepted by Fedora 32. My spec file contains this: %files %dir "/opt/astap/" "/opt/astap/astap" "/opt/astap/astap.ico" "/opt/astap/copyright.txt" "/opt/astap/deep_sky.csv" "/opt/astap/variable_stars.csv" %dir "/usr/share/applications/" "/usr/share/applications/ASTAP.desktop" "/usr/local/bin/astap" Only after removing %dir "/usr/share/applications/" line it works. I assume since the ownership...

han.k posted a comment on ticket #1

The fix didn't work for me. File conflict while installing. The lines %dir "/usr/share/applications/" is not accepted by Fedora 32. My spec file contains this: %files %dir "/opt/astap/" "/opt/astap/astap" "/opt/astap/astap.ico" "/opt/astap/copyright.txt" "/opt/astap/deep_sky.csv" "/opt/astap/variable_stars.csv" %dir "/usr/share/applications/" "/usr/share/applications/ASTAP.desktop" "/usr/local/bin/astap" Only after removing %Dir lines it works. I have disabled the line 451 in Rpm.pm where the %Dir...

Steven Shiau posted a comment on ticket #1

Is the newer version ready? It seems that I can not find it here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/alien-pkg-convert/files/ Thank you very much. Steven

trymeout posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

I cannot find out when the last version of alien was released and weather it is still maintained. I do not expect updates frequently but I would like to ensure I can rely on alien for years to come and ensure it work on many linux distros today and in the future.

Mattias Ohlsson created ticket #3

pull request: Use rpm2archive if available

Vitaly Lipatov posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

just install dpkg package to use dpkg-deb -x for unpacking

Vitaly Lipatov posted a comment on ticket #2

just install dpkg package to use dpkg-deb -x for unpacking

Vitaly Lipatov created ticket #2

alien does not support data.tar.xz

Tom Payerle posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

Thank you for supporting/providing alien; I have used it successfully many times over the years. Recently, I encountered an issue trying to convert a .deb to tarball (deb was qtsipm_9.1.18_linux64.deb) with alien reporting an error: no entry data.tar.gz in archive gzip: stin: unexpected end of file tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors Error executing "ar -p 'qtsimp_9.1.18_linux64.deb' data.tar.gz | gzip -dc | tar tf -": at XXX/Alien/Package.pm...

Kyle Barry posted a comment on ticket #1

Thank you for submitting your fix. I will post the amended version. -------- Original...

woob posted a comment on ticket #1

I've written a fix, which adds a list of directories to be excluded from the generated...

woob created ticket #1

Generated RPM files un-necessarily conflict with package "filesystem"

alien-pkg-convert released /release/alien_8.95.tar.xz