From: darren kirby <bulliver@badcomputer.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 14:20:10 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705101420.10657.bulliver@badcomputer.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <464398DB.5000803@gmail.com>
quoth the b.n.:
> darren kirby ha scritto:
> > Well, you can install RPM...
> >
> > # emerge -p rpm
> >
> > You could then, presumably, install the RPM, though I have not ever tried
> > this:
> > # rpm -i foopackage.i386.rpm
>
> I fear this way Portage would not be aware of the package being
> installed. Am I wrong?
>
> m.
I've no idea, but likely not. To tell the truth I was hoping the OP would be
brave and find out ;)
I was thinking he just had a one-off app he needed installed, and combined
with some 'package.provided' alchemy he may be able to get the result he
needed, however, in his response it seems this is not the case so...
-d
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-10 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-10 19:06 [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild Florian Philipp
2007-05-10 19:41 ` darren kirby
2007-05-10 22:12 ` b.n.
2007-05-10 20:20 ` darren kirby [this message]
2007-05-10 20:36 ` Florian Philipp
2007-05-10 21:13 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-10 21:46 ` Jesús Guerrero
2007-05-10 22:26 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-05-10 22:33 ` darren kirby
2007-05-11 9:18 ` Florian Philipp
2007-05-10 20:29 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-05-11 3:45 ` Randy Barlow
2007-05-11 0:35 ` Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
2007-05-10 19:53 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-05-10 20:16 ` Florian Philipp
2007-05-10 20:29 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-05-10 20:50 ` Florian Philipp
2007-05-10 23:36 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2007-05-10 21:05 ` Paul Varner
2007-05-11 5:51 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2007-05-11 9:43 ` Nistor Andrei
2007-05-11 10:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-11 10:25 ` Nistor Andrei
2007-05-11 10:34 ` Neil Bothwick
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2007-05-11 18:29 Öhler, Alessandro
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