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Jayson Garrell wrote: |
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> On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 12:16, Andrew Gaffney wrote: |
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>>Is their currently a script/program out there that will install an RPM |
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>>onto a Gentoo system? I'm not talking about 'rpm --nodeps -i file.rpm'. |
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>>I mean a program that will parse the RPMs dependencies and then use |
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>>portage to try and satisfy those dependencies, write a dummy ebuild, |
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>>then use portage to install it. Yes, I know RPMs are the spawn of Satan. |
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>>No, I do not need this program for myself. I just think it would be an |
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>>interesting project. |
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> I remember using a program in Debian called 'Alien'. It would convert |
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> rpm's into .deb, .tar.gz, or convert to .deb install the package and |
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> remove the .deb it created. It could probably be extended to do the same |
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> to create .ebuild's. |
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> I'll download the sources and take a look. |
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Yes, but can Alien install dependencies using Portage? That would be the |
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aim of this project. |
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