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From: Jayson Garrell <kyi@kyi.sytes.net>
To: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@technaut.darktalker.net>
Cc: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RPM installer for Gentoo
Date: 26 Aug 2003 13:26:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1061929604.3592.2.camel@jayson.NTSERVER1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F4BB222.3000503@technaut.darktalker.net>

On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 12:16, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> Is their currently a script/program out there that will install an RPM 
> onto a Gentoo system? I'm not talking about 'rpm --nodeps -i file.rpm'. 
> I mean a program that will parse the RPMs dependencies and then use 
> portage to try and satisfy those dependencies, write a dummy ebuild, 
> then use portage to install it. Yes, I know RPMs are the spawn of Satan. 
> No, I do not need this program for myself. I just think it would be an 
> interesting project.

I remember using a program in Debian called 'Alien'. It would convert
rpm's into .deb, .tar.gz, or convert to .deb install the package and
remove the .deb it created. It could probably be extended to do the same
to create .ebuild's.

I'll download the sources and take a look.

Jayson Garrell 


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-26 20:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-26 19:16 [gentoo-dev] RPM installer for Gentoo Andrew Gaffney
2003-08-26 20:26 ` Jayson Garrell [this message]
2003-08-26 20:53   ` Andrew Gaffney
2003-08-26 20:53     ` Mike Williams
2003-08-26 21:21       ` Andrew Gaffney
2003-08-26 23:07   ` Luke-Jr
2003-08-26 20:31 ` Dewet Diener
2003-08-26 20:52   ` Andrew Gaffney
2003-08-27 13:11   ` Terje Kvernes
2003-08-27 13:33     ` Chris Gianelloni
2003-08-28  1:00       ` Luke-Jr
2003-08-28  1:26         ` Lisa Marie Seelye
2003-08-28  4:05           ` Luke-Jr
2003-08-26 20:40 ` Marius Mauch
2003-08-26 21:17 ` Stuart Herbert
2003-08-26 21:43   ` Andrew Gaffney
2003-08-26 21:30     ` Stuart Herbert

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