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On Tuesday 26 August 2003 8:16 pm, 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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Please excuse me for this, but I think it would be a nightmare, and a waste of |
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time. |
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The problem isn't the dependencies, it's converting the install scripts from a |
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RedHat-compatible system to a Gentoo one. |
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I maintain a few ebuilds which have this very problem, and to date I haven't |
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figured out a way of performing that automatic conversion. If someone does, |
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then I'd like to hear from them. |
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Best regards, |
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Stu |
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