* Re: [gentoo-dev] RPM installer for Gentoo
@ 2003-08-26 20:53 99% ` Andrew Gaffney
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From: Andrew Gaffney @ 2003-08-26 20:53 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Jayson Garrell; +Cc: Gentoo Dev
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.
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