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I need to build an rpm on my deb system to deploy on some redhat systems (more specifically: I need to checkinstall realplayer's bin file to get a rpm), but I noticed debian's rpm install doesn't create a database. How can I create a database and tell rpm to us it?
Whoa! Do you mean that you want to create a sort of rpm database of all files you've installed, whether it was via apt-get or source or rpm, then transfer that db to another computer?
MasterC, I've wondered a few times why
RPM doesn't have a feature like this ;)
If you install a package successfully (doesn't
happen too often but sometimes you can't
get source-tarballs but only binary-rpm's)
it would be nice if one could trigger RPM to
build a database that assumes the dependencies
had been met ;) and presents those to other
packages as present :}
From my understanding debian (like slackware)
doesn't use rpm to maintain software installations.
Therefore if you try to install RPMs you'll
have to use rpm -i --nodeps because there's
for instance no entry for your glibc in the
database... or any other package, for that
matter.
But I might have misunderstood him/
over-interpreted :}
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