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