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 1LqnDE-0000Tg-HG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:42:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D315E06FC; Mon, 6 Apr 2009 11:41:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B97AE06FC for ; Mon, 6 Apr 2009 11:41:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAFB8649CC for ; Mon, 6 Apr 2009 11:41:58 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.439 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.439 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.160, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ZXu2NOMg6v7Z for ; Mon, 6 Apr 2009 11:41:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6EB2653BA for ; Mon, 6 Apr 2009 11:41:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LqnD0-0000zK-Ca for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:41:46 +0000 Received: from athedsl-48552.home.otenet.gr ([87.203.166.246]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:41:46 +0000 Received: from realnc by athedsl-48552.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:41:46 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:41:43 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <200904060642.06589.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20090406080043.29b0ed02@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <358eca8f0904060306r54a037dbp6c9490d2af89447e@mail.gmail.com> 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: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-48552.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) In-Reply-To: <358eca8f0904060306r54a037dbp6c9490d2af89447e@mail.gmail.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 4e8d7dda-a065-4429-a8f0-013f8018e8fb X-Archives-Hash: dec414fe979af66b8fa05c7d478c0835 Mick wrote: > 2009/4/6 Neil Bothwick : >> 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? 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. If you're familiar with ebuilds, you can write one that does all this so you can do "emerge packageXXX" to install it.