man Alien::Package::Rpm () - an object that represents a rpm package

NAME

Alien::Package::Rpm - an object that represents a rpm package

DESCRIPTION

This is an object class that represents a rpm package. It is derived from Alien::Package.

FIELDS

prefixes
Relocatable rpm packages have a prefixes field.

METHODS

checkfile
Detect rpm files by their extention.
install
Install a rpm. If RPMINSTALLOPT is set in the environement, the options in it are passed to rpm on its command line.
scan
Implement the scan method to read a rpm file.
unpack
Implement the unpack method to unpack a rpm file. This is a little nasty because it has to handle relocatable rpms and has to do a bit of permissions fixing as well.
prep
Prepare for package building by generating the spec file.
cleantree
Delete the spec file.
build
Build a rpm. If RPMBUILDOPT is set in the environement, the options in it are passed to rpm on its command line. An optional parameter, if passed, can be used to specify the program to use to build the rpm. It defaults to rpmbuild.
version
Set/get version. When retreiving the version, remove any dashes in it.
postinst
postrm
preinst
prerm
Set/get script fields. When retrieving a value, we have to do some truely sick mangling. Since debian/slackware scripts can be anything perl programs or binary files and rpm is limited to only shell scripts, we need to encode the files and add a scrap of shell script to make it unextract and run on the fly. When setting a value, we do some mangling too. Rpm maitainer scripts are typically shell scripts, but often lack the leading #!/bin/sh This can confuse dpkg, so add the #!/bin/sh if it looks like there is no shebang magic already in place.
arch
Set/get arch field. When the arch field is set, some sanitizing is done first to convert it to the debian format used internally. When it's retreived it's converted back to rpm form from the internal form.

AUTHOR

Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>