From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ec9Te-0003sq-Aw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 22:40:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAFMdcpF030211; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 22:39:38 GMT Received: from www.rout.co.nz (203-79-82-53.adsl-wns.paradise.net.nz [203.79.82.53]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAFMZpOo007525 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 22:35:52 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.2] (nick.rout.co.nz [192.168.1.2]) by www.rout.co.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 277391CB2E7 for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:33:54 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:35:50 +1300 From: Nick Rout To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: realplayer download security problem In-Reply-To: References: <20051116093914.D8EF.NICK@rout.co.nz> Message-Id: <20051116113258.D8F2.NICK@rout.co.nz> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.21.04 [en] X-Archives-Salt: 92093a38-b034-4eca-b97b-4468acfdb7e0 X-Archives-Hash: 2f7bd17c8ef573713169c74ae050c940 On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 21:11:09 +0000 (UTC) James wrote: > Nick Rout rout.co.nz> writes: > > > > > Can I download any rpm, stick it in this directory > > > and it will install with emerge? > > > > No it just means that you are downloading it manually instead of emerge > > downloading it. This is because emerge fails at the download. > > OK > > > If emerge finds the file in /usr/portage/distfiles it doesn't try to > > download it again, and it doesn't care how it got there. > > How does a gentoo system know the difference between an rpm file > that it can install and a rpm file that it cannot or > should not install on a gentoo system? portage gives the recipe for what files to install and how to install them. Installing from an rpm is not a lot different to installing from any other binary packaging method. An rpm is simply a conmpressed collection of files and some metadata (such as dependency information etc) and (optionally) some install and removal scripts. If you want to know how portage deals with an rpm i suggest that you READ the realplayer ebuild. -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list