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From: James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Ebuild hacking howto
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:07:00
Message-Id: loom.20110225T142124-726@post.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Ebuild hacking howto by James
1 James <wireless <at> tampabay.rr.com> writes:
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4 > Any other documents I should reference before
5 > attempinging to update an ebuild on my own
6 > person overlay dir?
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8 What about this link: rpm --> ebuild ?
9 a tool that generates an ebuild from a
10 rpm package?
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12 http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/functions/
13 src_unpack/rpm-sources/index.html
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16 Does this work?
17 Am I miss interpreting the .rpm to ebuild conversion
18 process?
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20 Anyone with any experience with this approach?
21 (there is a robust and current rpm for jffnms)
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24 James