opkg->deb

arne anka openmoko at ginguppin.de
Wed Feb 4 10:30:18 CET 2009


> Given that there are some applications (e.g. navit) which are updated
> regularly for opkg, but not for deb, it occurred to me that as the
> file formats are so similar, it shouldn't be so hard to write a script
> to convert from one to the other.

i did it once.
rename the opkg to deb, run
alien -r -c the.deb
alien -d -c the.rpm

problem is, that most of the dependencies get lost while transforming, so  
you need to check beforehand.


> has anyone beaten me to it?

would you like to?




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