From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25393 invoked by uid 1002); 26 Aug 2003 20:26:47 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 29142 invoked from network); 26 Aug 2003 20:26:47 -0000 From: Jayson Garrell To: Andrew Gaffney Cc: Gentoo Dev In-Reply-To: <3F4BB222.3000503@technaut.darktalker.net> References: <3F4BB222.3000503@technaut.darktalker.net> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1061929604.3592.2.camel@jayson.NTSERVER1> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4- Date: 26 Aug 2003 13:26:45 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RPM installer for Gentoo X-Archives-Salt: bd1bd1a8-745c-4e9a-8b0b-70ef00903b1d X-Archives-Hash: 9d8ce5b7b619bdfbfe98385b1df12c9c 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list