From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23224 invoked by uid 1002); 26 Aug 2003 21:08:01 -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 8685 invoked from network); 26 Aug 2003 21:08:01 -0000 Message-ID: <3F4BCF42.7030508@technaut.darktalker.net> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 16:21:06 -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: Mike Williams CC: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <3F4BB222.3000503@technaut.darktalker.net> <1061929604.3592.2.camel@jayson.NTSERVER1> <3F4BC8D9.5060404@technaut.darktalker.net> <200308262153.02337.mike@gaima.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200308262153.02337.mike@gaima.co.uk> 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: ce464be8-ecee-4de2-92dc-f906474089f6 X-Archives-Hash: f2455694be8ed8f470364f0c079b4706 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list