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On Friday 11 May 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Fri, 11 May 2007 12:43:50 +0300, Nistor Andrei wrote: |
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> > Just a thought... I think you could use alien to convert the rpm to a |
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> > tar.gz, |
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> Use rpm2tgxz to do that. |
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> > then use "emerge /path/to/whatever.tar.gz". (IIRC that's a way |
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> > you can install a binary package...). That should make portage aware of |
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> > the package being installed, but I think that you must install the deps |
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> > by hand... |
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> That won't work, emerge can only work with ebuilds or portage binary |
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> packages. You can either write your own ebuild to install the binary, |
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> which is pretty straightforward, or simply unpack it to /. |
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Portage binary packages aren't actually .tar.gz archives? |
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> As these are private, company packages, nothing else in the tree is going |
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> to depend on it, so you don't really need to install it via portage, |
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> although it does make tracking the package's dependencies easier. |
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