From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26075 invoked by uid 1002); 26 Aug 2003 23:07:58 -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 13448 invoked from network); 26 Aug 2003 23:07:58 -0000 From: Luke-Jr Organization: Gentoo Linux To: Jayson Garrell , Andrew Gaffney Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 23:07:48 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 Cc: Gentoo Dev References: <3F4BB222.3000503@technaut.darktalker.net> <1061929604.3592.2.camel@jayson.NTSERVER1> In-Reply-To: <1061929604.3592.2.camel@jayson.NTSERVER1> GPG-Public-Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD53E9583 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308262307.56309.luke-jr@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RPM installer for Gentoo X-Archives-Salt: 7e0f4dae-0584-4631-8ad5-60437306c7a5 X-Archives-Hash: 3fd06a622f7949cd2efc1e9506392491 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I remember that, and I also remember that my problem with it was that it=20 required root access and the commands for all the packages (rpm etc). I'd=20 much prefer something which parsed the RPM format itself and didn't need to= =20 extract them. The simplest way, I think, to do this would be to write a=20 rpmextract (or similar; not a full blown RPM, but just an extractor) and ha= ve=20 the auto generated ebuilds use the RPMs in distfiles... The problem would=20 come in if we wanted to automate compiling a source RPM... Though for all I= =20 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 > > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list =2D --=20 Luke-Jr Developer, Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org/ =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/S+hIZl/BHdU+lYMRAvdgAJsFtgYHg9ISJtktuQpKtWAWYMsDDACgnk3J sVZp/gbOUMvDc5Qw9hfKGos=3D =3D4TdZ =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list