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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next prev 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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