From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LqnhX-0004jb-Me for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:13:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 479F8E0128; Mon, 6 Apr 2009 12:13:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE10FE0128 for ; Mon, 6 Apr 2009 12:13:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D1638470854 for ; Mon, 6 Apr 2009 13:13:11 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 13:13:04 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo Message-ID: <20090406131304.6019788a@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <200904060642.06589.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20090406080043.29b0ed02@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <358eca8f0904060306r54a037dbp6c9490d2af89447e@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1cvs40 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/=XE+hauv75/txIxh/dVOpJz"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 4104d418-5658-4810-add5-20fc364db965 X-Archives-Hash: 6aee1ac05170607cb38267bdd74efdc2 --Sig_/=XE+hauv75/txIxh/dVOpJz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:41:43 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > Thanks Neil, is that the equivalent of running: > >=20 > > yum install /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/packageXXX.el5.i386.rpm > No. It is equivalent to running rpm2targz on RH and them extracting > the tarball to / :P It is equivalent to extracting *any* tarball to / > for that matter. More specifically, it does not run any pre/post-install scripts in the RPM. There is an rpm package too, but this almost always fails because the RPM database shows no dependencies installed. > If you're familiar with ebuilds, you can write one that does all this > so you can do "emerge packageXXX" to install it. And there's an rpm.eclass to do some of the work for you. --=20 Neil Bothwick I've seen the procedure hundreds of times. - Qwark --Sig_/=XE+hauv75/txIxh/dVOpJz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknZ8dUACgkQum4al0N1GQOMogCfd0XerSdVjPwpfBmYOS40Kg6q fx4AoKIgUsTH1xkypNeVmr6R+mKJ7Gx+ =xFKT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/=XE+hauv75/txIxh/dVOpJz--