From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15443 invoked by uid 1002); 26 Aug 2003 20:40:20 -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 12584 invoked from network); 26 Aug 2003 20:40:20 -0000 Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:40:25 +0200 From: Marius Mauch To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20030826224025.77b82bfc.genone@genone.de> In-Reply-To: <3F4BB222.3000503@technaut.darktalker.net> References: <3F4BB222.3000503@technaut.darktalker.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4claws35 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RPM installer for Gentoo X-Archives-Salt: 9c203791-3291-4e6b-82c0-578235bf8bb7 X-Archives-Hash: f0f475fb02a04d23154bb3dcbf8941c1 On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 14:16:50 -0500 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 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list