From: "Jesús Guerrero" <6thpink@terra.es>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 23:46:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070510234657.3b3de638@jesgue> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705102236.41957.f.philipp@addcom.de>
El Thu, 10 May 2007 22:36:41 +0200
Florian Philipp <f.philipp@addcom.de> escribió:
> 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?
The difference is that Gentoo is not RPM based. Could it supoprt RPM?
Yes, and also DEB files, and also..... As you see, each distro has it's
own packaging system.
Gentoo ebuilds are nothing more -ultimately- than bash scripts which
provides an easy way to build stuff from source (RPM is by no means
oriented on that direction, though there are also source RPM, but they
are not the normal thing, like binary ebuilds are not normal either).
Sure ebuilds can use data extracted from RPMs, that is no problem. But
for any ebuild, a given RPM is nothing more than a tarball containing
binaries, and not a proper package.
-- Jesús Guerrero
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-10 21:56 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
2007-05-10 20:36 ` Florian Philipp
2007-05-10 21:13 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-10 21:46 ` Jesús Guerrero [this message]
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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