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From: darren kirby <bulliver@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 22:43:07
Message-Id: 200705101633.23570.bulliver@badcomputer.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild by Florian Philipp
1 quoth the Florian Philipp:
2 > Maybe I should formulate another question: Where is the big difference
3 > between a binary ebuild and a binary rpm / deb and why is it so hard to
4 > convert them?
5
6 Another thought:
7
8 Unless I've missed it, you've not mentioned *what* it is you have an RPM for.
9 Have you checked bugzilla, and all the various overlays yet to see if there
10 *is* a user-contributed ebuild for it?
11
12 -d
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14 darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org
15 "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..."
16 - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972
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Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild Florian Philipp <f.philipp@××××××.de>