Re: [gentoo-dev] RPM installer for Gentoo

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

Mike Williams wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 August 2003 21:53, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> 
>>>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.
 >
> rpms and debs have dependency information, it must be available at some point 
> during the conversion process (it's transferred between rpm <-> deb). So it 
> should be trivial to build the {P,R}DEPEND info from that to create a simple 
> ebuild.
> The conversion process can ask the category, or default to something sensible 
> like app-converted maybe ?

I was thinking something like app-rpm, but yes.

-- 
Andrew Gaffney


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