Hello All,

I have been fiddling with Portage for a few weeks now. Recently, I was
trying to get the RPM creation with ebuild to work a little better. I
noticed that currently emerge does not support building RPMs, but ebuild
does.

I have added some code to emerge that can build RPM for a package and 
all its dependencies. It will optionally merge the package to the system 
or just build an RPM. I am basically making this work very similar to 
the --buildpkg and --buildpkgonly options.

I am using --buildrpm (-r) and --buildrpmonly (-R) options currently for 
these two tasks. However, if those two short options are reserved for 
some other purpose, I am fine with changing them. (If so, please suggest 
different short options).

If this functionality is likely to be useful to other people also, I 
would love to submit a patch.

I think I have somewhat older version of portage. Which version should I 
build the patch against, if I have to?

Thanks,
Nimish


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