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From: Terje Kvernes <terjekv@math.uio.no>
To: Dewet Diener <gentoo@dewet.org>
Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RPM installer for Gentoo
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 15:11:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wxxznhvz1mv.fsf@nommo.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200308262231.07468.gentoo@dewet.org> (Dewet Diener's message of "Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:31:07 +0200")

Dewet Diener <gentoo@dewet.org> writes:

  [ ... ]

> Much like g-cpan.pl?  Sounds like a good idea -- the biggest problem
> that I can imagine is different naming conventions: RedHat / Mdk
> already use (sorta) differing schemes to name packages -- how would
> one go about 'translating' this to category/ebuild names?

  you need a map between known packages in RedHat (and in Mandrake)
  towards their Gentoo-equivalents.  this only needs to be done once
  per version per distribution.  the big issue is that there is no
  frontend to portage that'll make this easy to incorporate.

-- 
Terje

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-08-27 13:11 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 [this message]
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
2003-08-26 21:30     ` Stuart Herbert

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