Re: [gentoo-dev] RPM installer for Gentoo

[Marius Mauch <genone@genone.de>]

On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 14:16:50 -0500
Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@technaut.darktalker.net> 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 don't know of any tool to do it automatically, the easiest way is
probably
a) take a look at the spec file of the src.rpm (if available) and
rewrite that in an ebuild, or
b) make an ebuild based on the rpm eclass like the ebuilds
ximian-connector or use rpm2targz / rpm2cpio

Marius

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