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 1HmGcU-0005Hq-53 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 May 2007 21:56:18 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4ALsshL020024; Thu, 10 May 2007 21:54:54 GMT Received: from csmtpout4.frontal.correo (mailhost.terra.es [213.4.149.12]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4ALmefT012520 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 21:48:40 GMT Received: from jesgue (86.111.88.141) by csmtpout4.frontal.correo (7.2.056.6) (authenticated as 6thpink.terra.es) id 46424A28000ECB4A for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 May 2007 23:47:00 +0200 Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 23:46:57 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?B?SmVz+nM=?= Guerrero <6thpink@terra.es> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild Message-ID: <20070510234657.3b3de638@jesgue> In-Reply-To: <200705102236.41957.f.philipp@addcom.de> References: <200705102106.17288.f.philipp@addcom.de> <464398DB.5000803@gmail.com> <200705101420.10657.bulliver@badcomputer.org> <200705102236.41957.f.philipp@addcom.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 695fe6ec-3530-4246-a307-845236a307a3 X-Archives-Hash: 703bd57b32df0a7c1697a7219973e6d2 El Thu, 10 May 2007 22:36:41 +0200 Florian Philipp escribi=F3: > 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?=20 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. -- Jes=FAs Guerrero -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list