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El Thu, 10 May 2007 22:36:41 +0200 |
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Florian Philipp <f.philipp@××××××.de> escribió: |
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> Maybe I should formulate another question: Where is the big |
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> difference between a binary ebuild and a binary rpm / deb and why is |
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> it so hard to convert them? |
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The difference is that Gentoo is not RPM based. Could it supoprt RPM? |
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Yes, and also DEB files, and also..... As you see, each distro has it's |
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own packaging system. |
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Gentoo ebuilds are nothing more -ultimately- than bash scripts which |
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provides an easy way to build stuff from source (RPM is by no means |
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oriented on that direction, though there are also source RPM, but they |
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are not the normal thing, like binary ebuilds are not normal either). |
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Sure ebuilds can use data extracted from RPMs, that is no problem. But |
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for any ebuild, a given RPM is nothing more than a tarball containing |
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binaries, and not a proper package. |
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-- Jesús Guerrero |
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