Repacking .deb into RPM

[wyohman]

I've been quite found of Moria for many years now (played PC and Umoria). I can't seem to find an RPM version but did manage to find a compiled version in .deb format. Can someone point me in the right direction to repackage this for PCLOS?

Cheers.

[Joble]

this is somewhat beyond anything I've tried but.....
You could use alien to convert that to a tar.gz, extract the binary files and make an rpm out of it.  That's as far as I can go however, I've never written a spec file for binaries.  I learned of that trick from Tex, but I've never done it.

[wyohman]

this is somewhat beyond anything I've tried but.....
You could use alien to convert that to a tar.gz, extract the binary files and make an rpm out of it.  That's as far as I can go however, I've never written a spec file for binaries.  I learned of that trick from Tex, but I've never done it.

I have already extracted the binaries into a "temp" directory. I could copy these to the required locations and just do this every time I re-install. I've tried basic packaging but I've never found a site with a good explanation.

Cheers.