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On Tue, 2021-08-31 at 16:51 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> AMD have published Linux drivers on their website, but in RPM and .deb |
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> formats. I tried one anyway, but installation stops immediately with |
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> 'unsupported OS'. Not surprising, of course, but is there any way of porting |
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> and archive full of .debs so that it can be used in Gentoo? |
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Lots of portage ebuild files make use of vendor-published .deb / .rpm |
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files, manipulating them to install files in the Gentoo-style way. |
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One of the more straightforward and yet complete examples I've seen is |
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the Microsoft Teams (net-im/teams) package[1] but there are certainly |
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others to use for examples. |
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If you wanted, you could try making an ebuild for the deb files from |
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AMD, whether only for your own needs or to possibly share with others. |
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1:https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/net-im/teams/teams-1.4.00.13653-r1.ebuild |
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