From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23491 invoked by uid 1002); 26 Aug 2003 20:40:40 -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 12752 invoked from network); 26 Aug 2003 20:40:40 -0000 Message-ID: <3F4BC8D9.5060404@technaut.darktalker.net> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:53:45 -0500 From: Andrew Gaffney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030820 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jayson Garrell CC: Gentoo Dev References: <3F4BB222.3000503@technaut.darktalker.net> <1061929604.3592.2.camel@jayson.NTSERVER1> In-Reply-To: <1061929604.3592.2.camel@jayson.NTSERVER1> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.4.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RPM installer for Gentoo X-Archives-Salt: 11c5da02-a9be-47c1-8051-a69370ec5446 X-Archives-Hash: 32adf022ea2a4620bdfd55e3e25f3f05 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list