Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Bill Anderson <bill@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Distribution Name
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 18:32:38
Message-Id: 3A7B608F.6010202@noreboots.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Distribution Name by 320095285153-0001@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)
1 Achim Gottinger wrote:
2
3 > Bill Anderson wrote:
4
5 ...
6
7 >> Another, more concrete and relevant example:
8 >> RedHat wrote a set of python rpm libraries in python. IF, for some reason,
9 >> we wanted to use those libraries (perhaps as a base for an rpm-ebuild
10 >> converter .. oooh neat idea) we would need to look at the license that
11 >> Redhat put on their code, not the python license.
12 >
13 >
14 > ebuild->rpm works.
15 > rpm/spec->ebuild whould not be too difficult with redhat-spec because they
16 > install to a tempdir too. SuSE-specs
17 > could not be convertet automatic because they install directly to the
18 > filesystem when building rpm's.
19 > Imagine building a complete redhat distribution with the ebuild system. :-)
20
21 hmmm ... that would be very, very cool.
22 I may have to play with that ... :^)=
23
24 Bill