From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31982 invoked by uid 1002); 26 Aug 2003 20:53:50 -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 25717 invoked from network); 26 Aug 2003 20:53:39 -0000 From: Mike Williams To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 21:53:02 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.9 References: <3F4BB222.3000503@technaut.darktalker.net> <1061929604.3592.2.camel@jayson.NTSERVER1> <3F4BC8D9.5060404@technaut.darktalker.net> In-Reply-To: <3F4BC8D9.5060404@technaut.darktalker.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200308262153.02337.mike@gaima.co.uk> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RPM installer for Gentoo X-Archives-Salt: 03f99786-4df2-4cca-a4b5-cc1daacfbc73 X-Archives-Hash: c5f48793ce73b5ea1149388afdf6323f =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 26 August 2003 21:53, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > > 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. > > Yes, but can Alien install dependencies using Portage? That would be the > aim of this project. rpms and debs have dependency information, it must be available at some poi= nt=20 during the conversion process (it's transferred between rpm <-> deb). So it= =20 should be trivial to build the {P,R}DEPEND info from that to create a simpl= e=20 ebuild. The conversion process can ask the category, or default to something sensib= le=20 like app-converted maybe ? =2D --=20 Mike Williams =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/S8iuInuLMrk7bIwRAifuAJ0f+ceWOwShG5kDWPB/8i9uedvUpgCfSTv/ Oixf/ozbGkl1FxNRzrrKjnc=3D =3DPXlV =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list