From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24906 invoked by uid 1002); 26 Aug 2003 21:20:09 -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 10067 invoked from network); 26 Aug 2003 21:20:09 -0000 From: Stuart Herbert To: Andrew Gaffney , Gentoo Dev Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:17:53 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <3F4BB222.3000503@technaut.darktalker.net> In-Reply-To: <3F4BB222.3000503@technaut.darktalker.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_B68S/wn7XxIdjvD"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200308262217.53714.stuart@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RPM installer for Gentoo X-Archives-Salt: f89b3da8-a119-4044-96ce-0354400d55a3 X-Archives-Hash: e67e1688459d1a51cb42e2b736885bde --Boundary-02=_B68S/wn7XxIdjvD Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 26 August 2003 8:16 pm, 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. Please excuse me for this, but I think it would be a nightmare, and a waste= of=20 time. The problem isn't the dependencies, it's converting the install scripts fro= m a=20 RedHat-compatible system to a Gentoo one. I maintain a few ebuilds which have this very problem, and to date I haven'= t=20 figured out a way of performing that automatic conversion. If someone does= ,=20 then I'd like to hear from them. Best regards, Stu =2D-=20 Stuart Herbert stuart@gentoo.o= rg Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.or= g/ Beta packages for download http://dev.gentoo.org/~stuart/package= s/ Come and meet me in March 2004 http://www.phparch.com/cruis= e/ GnuGP key id# F9AFC57C available from http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint =3D 31FB 50D4 1F88 E227 F319 C549 0C2F 80BA F9AF C57C =2D- --Boundary-02=_B68S/wn7XxIdjvD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/S86BDC+AuvmvxXwRAgv2AKCd2HFJyEJRQ3UK9wa5RTyRL3pVZgCfe17r GLJ2HvqtJNOCj/vPxHdQihg= =mR39 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_B68S/wn7XxIdjvD--