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 <gentoo-user+bounces-63777-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@gentoo.org>) id 1HmRkN-0008Nq-4P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 May 2007 09:49:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4B9laGA021382; Fri, 11 May 2007 09:47:36 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.168]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4B9gwYh015624 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 11 May 2007 09:42:58 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so651638ugc for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 11 May 2007 02:42:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=BKaOQK2B58Kq7InY1f4RG/kOn1R4S2J+/zqYLc6YhMb7P5qX7Dar1NT+Anf1lPlO8bGX8J/N9kXrd0fJ6C6Engx9/y8Vo8XwaX7Jw69ntjpZA5czdb564ZzgWuoD3PVXEQ6/5VW7er+r3UVEXTc4vT0GmzZDkqzFG1Gv3EPiCds= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=JuMLAuDENMNV1NvkKqgpoMXSi3PtOfHyfrG0XDBjbMFxnC5kIyoiRiFLFzKpTkr2aQF9hxO4cSZjNFPaWIZCJ7TRIzhe7DxoZt3ro11Y7EFmJx/HzRlyW0JbIYejHrpdSj7fcZwJNWUT01/ePLRsggYRFfzE0z1WV51Yq0S4GpQ= Received: by 10.66.243.2 with SMTP id q2mr2751264ugh.1178876578010; Fri, 11 May 2007 02:42:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?89.33.117.40? ( [89.33.117.40]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 55sm7012858ugq.2007.05.11.02.42.56; Fri, 11 May 2007 02:42:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Nistor Andrei <coder.tux@gmail.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 12:43:50 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <200705102106.17288.f.philipp@addcom.de> In-Reply-To: <200705102106.17288.f.philipp@addcom.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705111243.50790.coder.tux@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: cc967ef3-4732-456b-b5e2-a2b049236d00 X-Archives-Hash: 239d3631d0e9c404c921d92842be7748 On Thursday 10 May 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: > Hi! > > I thought this question would be quiet common but I've been unable to get > an answer googling and looking through howtos. Actually there are some > links in an old thread on forums.gentoo.org but its target seems to have > moved. > > Anyway, how do I install packages in .rpm or .deb without messing up > portage? Is there something like "alien"? > > Thanks in advance > Florian Philipp Just a thought... I think you could use alien to convert the rpm to a tar.gz, then use "emerge /path/to/whatever.tar.gz". (IIRC that's a way you can install a binary package...). That should make portage aware of the package being installed, but I think that you must install the deps by hand... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list