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 1Lqnrj-0006J8-6b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:23:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 67DECE072E; Mon, 6 Apr 2009 12:23:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f169.google.com (mail-fx0-f169.google.com [209.85.220.169]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21058E072E for ; Mon, 6 Apr 2009 12:23:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm17 with SMTP id 17so1666089fxm.34 for ; Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:23:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=uLDjVToTZk+eSU0qmqhj12St/7cBT3AGB0ayfLCupHU=; b=YrsuKXg+opFs2gJXSNd0cbUv+i9YalHCnzajp6y9Wz5LhI0txZAJC7JQmVP47Aarrr HJYD2Je6IFC+NPWYgCDo/5vZcz28k9naDLFafE/RXpyqStNIHbkkAT3aJxbur0iuJByl qOg3+uF1QqlRvEJ8d3OLXYGpqxs91126kMPVw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Ka2+dImfOZF20DG8SJ8SR4y2Il95Okoin95AT2i510VbBZy4wUj+LDkAkfQyHzegOL jHG2TG5T59jHjqkuvqLnUCGLekRQd2QWh8PkU0MAXYHbIhb1935ZknqplTk2C+scCTXU PBbm4xESjeuwsTrw/Qa4W8QS9ZwogNglUnRIg= 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 Received: by 10.86.36.17 with SMTP id j17mr3113157fgj.19.1239020628433; Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:23:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090406131304.6019788a@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> References: <200904060642.06589.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20090406080043.29b0ed02@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <358eca8f0904060306r54a037dbp6c9490d2af89447e@mail.gmail.com> <20090406131304.6019788a@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 14:23:48 +0200 Message-ID: <6142e6140904060523p4c05ce6ax2e5e46cdad1e0ff2@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo From: Daniel Pielmeier To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4e573e70-3c5f-4dc4-8046-0dee809a747d X-Archives-Hash: bdda731e4cb1793f17754618094458de 2009/4/6 Neil Bothwick : > On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:41:43 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> 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. If you also have access to the source rpm, you can create an ebuild with the help of the above mentioned eclass which just takes care of the proper unpacking of the rpm source. You will find some information here [1] or directly in the eclass which is located in your portage tree in the eclass directory. [1] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/functions/src_unpack/rpm-sources/index.html -- Regards, Daniel