From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9444 invoked by uid 1002); 27 Aug 2003 13:11:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 19089 invoked from network); 27 Aug 2003 13:11:27 -0000 To: Dewet Diener Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <3F4BB222.3000503@technaut.darktalker.net> <200308262231.07468.gentoo@dewet.org> From: Terje Kvernes Organization: do you Gentoo? X-URL: http://terje.kvernes.no/ Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 15:11:20 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200308262231.07468.gentoo@dewet.org> (Dewet Diener's message of "Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:31:07 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: Terje Kvernes X-MailScanner-Information: This message has been scanned for viruses/spam. Contact postmaster@uio.no if you have questions about this scanning. X-UiO-MailScanner: No virus found Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RPM installer for Gentoo X-Archives-Salt: 55a6dd2f-1cbe-478b-b79f-f5b6b071d519 X-Archives-Hash: 0a47da79dc1cc05de589f2f6439c072f Dewet Diener 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list