Re: [gentoo-dev] RPM installer for Gentoo

[Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@technaut.darktalker.net>]

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.

Yes, but can Alien install dependencies using Portage? That would be the 
aim of this project.

-- 
Andrew Gaffney


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