* Re: [gentoo-dev] RPM installer for Gentoo
@ 2003-08-26 20:53 99% ` Mike Williams
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From: Mike Williams @ 2003-08-26 20:53 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
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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 ?
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