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Mike Williams wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 26 August 2003 21:53, Andrew Gaffney wrote: |
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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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> rpms and debs have dependency information, it must be available at some point |
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> during the conversion process (it's transferred between rpm <-> deb). So it |
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> should be trivial to build the {P,R}DEPEND info from that to create a simple |
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> ebuild. |
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> The conversion process can ask the category, or default to something sensible |
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> like app-converted maybe ? |
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I was thinking something like app-rpm, but yes. |
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