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Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] Converting srpms to debs
On 26-10-17 20:09, John Crisp wrote:
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> On 26 October 2017 19:45:29 CEST, Vincent Bentley <vince@???> wrote:
>> Have you tried alien?
>>
>> apt-cache show alien
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>>
> No, but I'm not sure that it is a full on solution..... it gets you out of a hole for odd packages as far as I remember? And you don't end up with a source package?
>
> I need to be able to hack some of the source files due to different file paths, and then build as debs.
>

According to the man page from alien


-g, --generate
           Generate a temporary directory suitable for building a package
           from, but do not actually create the package.