From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 11:06:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <358eca8f0904060306r54a037dbp6c9490d2af89447e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090406080043.29b0ed02@krikkit.digimed.co.uk>
2009/4/6 Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>:
> On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 06:41:53 +0100, Mick wrote:
>
>> How can I use this on a gentoo machine (I understand that it won't be
>> maintained by portage).
>
> Use rpm2targz to turn it into a tarball, then unpack it into your
> root filesystem (after first checking the contents).
Thanks Neil, is that the equivalent of running:
yum install /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/packageXXX.el5.i386.rpm
on RH?
--
Regards,
Mick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-06 10:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-06 5:41 [gentoo-user] [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo Mick
2009-04-06 7:00 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-04-06 10:06 ` Mick [this message]
2009-04-06 11:41 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-04-06 12:13 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-04-06 12:23 ` Daniel Pielmeier
2009-04-18 10:21 ` [gentoo-user] " Alex Schuster
2009-04-06 12:30 ` Justin
2009-04-06 19:17 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-04-07 18:24 ` Mick
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