Re: [gentoo-dev] RPM installer for Gentoo

[Luke-Jr <luke-jr@gentoo.org>]

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I remember that, and I also remember that my problem with it was that it 
required root access and the commands for all the packages (rpm etc). I'd 
much prefer something which parsed the RPM format itself and didn't need to 
extract them. The simplest way, I think, to do this would be to write a 
rpmextract (or similar; not a full blown RPM, but just an extractor) and have 
the auto generated ebuilds use the RPMs in distfiles... The problem would 
come in if we wanted to automate compiling a source RPM... Though for all I 
know they could come with compiliation instructions. I think DEBs do...

On Tuesday 26 August 2003 08:26 pm, Jayson Garrell wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 12:16, 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 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.
>
> Jayson Garrell
>
>
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