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From: Marius Mauch <genone@genone.de>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RPM installer for Gentoo
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:40:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030826224025.77b82bfc.genone@genone.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F4BB222.3000503@technaut.darktalker.net>

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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-08-26 20:40 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
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 [this message]
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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