From: Fernando D. Mato Mira
Subject: alien (6.49-1) from deb to rpm fails
Date: 
Message-ID: <383C359E.2C22B3A@iname.com>
Hello,

  I upgraded to the latest release and it still fails on some .deb
packages, notably alien itself and the CMUCL 2.4.17 packages
(always the same way):

entoo:/tmp # alien -r alien_6.49.deb
-- Examining alien_6.49.deb
tar: control: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
-- Unpacking alien_6.49.deb
-- Automatic spec file generation
-- Building the package --2.i386.rpm
--2.spec: unknown option
alien: Error putting together the RPM package.

gentoo:/tmp # rpm -q alien
alien-6.49-1
gentoo:/tmp # rpm -q perl
perl-5.005_03-9
gentoo:/tmp # rpm -q rpm
rpm-3.0.3-9
gentoo:/tmp # rpm -q make
make-3.77-25

SuSE 6.2

Thanks in advamce,

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