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 1HmSOY-0004uL-1v for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 May 2007 10:30:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4BATRor018495; Fri, 11 May 2007 10:29:27 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.170]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4BAOptD013262 for ; Fri, 11 May 2007 10:24:52 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so656348ugc for ; Fri, 11 May 2007 03:24:51 -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=fC5nKamhpHyfyYBx8sLK6LAz/UzLAL9VM5+nUWX/ZMeu2E+3oJ7+NqULK/0qmO11Yn7qnJsu5yR03PzJ9iI5oGaj2l11aoW9E/Gy4xIF8RBzQ7wQ3uUPFJimbdBlKmeAFHAOqp8jxLSJBhmv3fCD8fNUNdKpzuAH9nXgILWepaw= 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=Kg/Ao+D0u2nU60Hix0GQGo3tByzJqc3BUYz7nl6kcR2ZTEkiG9ZhWdAIPqymSNab7TpvEsVH3WTMQEvCy6uFRu3HoW0EsasmRIuJ2E8ZhTneiDoxMTSuaegfbAr7zxqWTAn1eQE/SZImyKAbWmCkYGvO1estPN7uHDcUpoSClO0= Received: by 10.67.28.9 with SMTP id f9mr2737465ugj.1178879091605; Fri, 11 May 2007 03:24:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?89.33.117.40? ( [89.33.117.40]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id u1sm6290044uge.2007.05.11.03.24.50; Fri, 11 May 2007 03:24:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Nistor Andrei To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 13:25:46 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <200705102106.17288.f.philipp@addcom.de> <200705111243.50790.coder.tux@gmail.com> <20070511110419.091a5405@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20070511110419.091a5405@hactar.digimed.co.uk> 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-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705111325.46390.coder.tux@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 631394fb-181e-4b6e-b213-0d307204782c X-Archives-Hash: 6bb9b04546750d6cd97b0af26554644b On Friday 11 May 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 11 May 2007 12:43:50 +0300, Nistor Andrei wrote: > > Just a thought... I think you could use alien to convert the rpm to a > > tar.gz, > > Use rpm2tgxz to do that. > > > 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... > > That won't work, emerge can only work with ebuilds or portage binary > packages. You can either write your own ebuild to install the binary, > which is pretty straightforward, or simply unpack it to /. > Portage binary packages aren't actually .tar.gz archives? > As these are private, company packages, nothing else in the tree is going > to depend on it, so you don't really need to install it via portage, > although it does make tracking the package's dependencies easier. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list