Adding RPM conversion in Fedore for dvorka#378.

build/fedora/fedora-rpm-from-deb.sh

@@ -1,2 +1,47 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# MindForger knowledge management tool
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2016-2018 Martin Dvorak <[email protected]>
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
+# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
-... script to generate from alien and resolve filesystem conflicts...
+# Method: binary deb -alien-> -fixes-> rpm
+
+# This script is available from http://www.mindforger.com/fedora/fedora-rpm-from-deb.sh
+# to be easily available in VMs
+
+export PRJNAME="mindforger_0.7.1-1_amd64"
+
+# IMPORTANT: this script must be run as root
+
+# a) everything works just fine
+# alien -r mindforger_0.7.1-1_amd64.deb
+
+# b) alien generates RPM that conflicts w/ other RPMs
+#    https://www.electricmonk.nl/log/2017/02/23/how-to-solve-rpms-created-by-alien-having-file-conflicts/
+
+alien -r -g -v "${DEBNAME}.deb"
+
+# remove the following lines:
+#%dir "/"
+#%dir "/usr/bin/"
+sed -i 's#%dir "/"##' ${PRJNAME}/${PRJNAME}-1.spec
+sed -i 's#%dir "/usr/bin/"##' ${PRJNAME}/${PRJNAME}-1.spec
+
+# recreate RPM
+cd ${PRJNAME}
+rpmbuild --target=noarch --buildroot /full/path/to/${PRJNAME}/ -bb cfgtrack-$(REL_VERSION)-2.spec
+
+# end