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From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@technaut.darktalker.net>
To: Stuart Herbert <stuart@gentoo.org>
Cc: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RPM installer for Gentoo
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 16:43:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F4BD499.5060408@technaut.darktalker.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200308262217.53714.stuart@gentoo.org>

Stuart Herbert wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 August 2003 8:16 pm, 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.
> 
> 
> Please excuse me for this, but I think it would be a nightmare, and a waste of 
> time.
> 
> The problem isn't the dependencies, it's converting the install scripts from a 
> RedHat-compatible system to a Gentoo one.
> 
> I maintain a few ebuilds which have this very problem, and to date I haven't 
> figured out a way of performing that automatic conversion.  If someone does, 
> then I'd like to hear from them.

Ah, I had forgotten about those pesky post-install scripts.

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Andrew Gaffney


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-26 21:30 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
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 [this message]
2003-08-26 21:30     ` Stuart Herbert

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