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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HmHLn-00071w-5Z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 May 2007 22:43:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4AMeF4l017061; Thu, 10 May 2007 22:40:15 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4AMXdcG008937 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 22:33:39 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C029764423 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 22:33:38 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: 0.04 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.04 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.040] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Htzw21JkgCHE for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 22:33:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pd2mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AF5264351 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 22:33:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pd3mr6so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr6so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.21]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JHU00BP8JZO5GG0@l-daemon> for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 10 May 2007 16:33:24 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml2so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.146]) by pd3mr6so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JHU00M4MJZK6XG1@pd3mr6so.prod.shaw.ca> for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 10 May 2007 16:33:20 -0600 (MDT) Received: from virgo.badcomputer.org ([68.148.98.184]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JHU006BLJZHK3Q0@l-daemon> for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 10 May 2007 16:33:17 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 16:33:23 -0600 From: darren kirby Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild In-reply-to: <200705102236.41957.f.philipp@addcom.de> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <200705101633.23570.bulliver@badcomputer.org> Organization: Badcomputer Org. 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=iso-8859-6 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <200705102106.17288.f.philipp@addcom.de> <200705101420.10657.bulliver@badcomputer.org> <200705102236.41957.f.philipp@addcom.de> User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 X-Archives-Salt: cd1d5cb2-b5b1-447f-9203-7a12c4936e16 X-Archives-Hash: 1732e7d7a8942661e3111d3993ed9d1d quoth the Florian Philipp: > Maybe I should formulate another question: Where is the big difference > between a binary ebuild and a binary rpm / deb and why is it so hard to > convert them? Another thought: Unless I've missed it, you've not mentioned *what* it is you have an RPM for. Have you checked bugzilla, and all the various overlays yet to see if there *is* a user-contributed ebuild for it? -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list