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Deb -> Rpm?Deb -> Rpm?Posted May 14, 2012 18:48 UTC (Mon) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185)In reply to: Deb -> Rpm? by dlang Parent article: Fragmentation on the Linux Desktop (Is it Normal?) (Datamation)
And as long as deb fans will ask rpm fans to convert, and rpm fans ask deb fans to convert, people like me will have to continue to try to build tarballs that, together with some scripts, provide something that nearly works on every system but doesn't integrate and contains way too much junk.
I hate creating debs, I hate creating rpms, I hate creating tarballs or bitrock installers -- but most of all I hate having to do essentially the same job twice.
I don't give a damn about the package format, not as a Linux user, not as a software developer. Rpm and deb both just work, and I just don't like the fact that there are two of them, and that people actually can bring up the enthusiasm to defend one against the other.
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Deb -> Rpm? Posted May 14, 2012 19:25 UTC (Mon) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
so you need to use tools that build both for you without you having to do either one manually.
I understand that the Suse buildforge does this for you, and I believe that the code to do this is available.
plus there is the alien program that will take a .deb and convert it to a .rpm (and vice-versa)
so the cost of creating both formats (if you don't care about the distro specific policies) looks like one line in a build script. hardly a crushing load.
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