From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@technaut.darktalker.net>
To: Dewet Diener <gentoo@dewet.org>
Cc: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RPM installer for Gentoo
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:52:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F4BC89D.8060006@technaut.darktalker.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200308262231.07468.gentoo@dewet.org>
Dewet Diener wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 August 2003 21:16, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>
> Much like g-cpan.pl? Sounds like a good idea -- the biggest problem
> that I can imagine is different naming conventions: RedHat / Mdk
> already use (sorta) differing schemes to name packages -- how would
> one go about 'translating' this to category/ebuild names?
Make the program interactive? If it can't figure it out all by itself
(using some kind of algorithm) or if it has a few possibilities, it
would prompt the user.
--
Andrew Gaffney
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-26 20:39 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 [this message]
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
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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