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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 10:11:25
Message-Id: 20070511110419.091a5405@hactar.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild by Nistor Andrei
1 On Fri, 11 May 2007 12:43:50 +0300, Nistor Andrei wrote:
2
3 > Just a thought... I think you could use alien to convert the rpm to a
4 > tar.gz,
5
6 Use rpm2tgxz to do that.
7
8 > then use "emerge /path/to/whatever.tar.gz". (IIRC that's a way
9 > you can install a binary package...). That should make portage aware of
10 > the package being installed, but I think that you must install the deps
11 > by hand...
12
13 That won't work, emerge can only work with ebuilds or portage binary
14 packages. You can either write your own ebuild to install the binary,
15 which is pretty straightforward, or simply unpack it to /.
16
17 As these are private, company packages, nothing else in the tree is going
18 to depend on it, so you don't really need to install it via portage,
19 although it does make tracking the package's dependencies easier.
20
21
22 --
23 Neil Bothwick
24
25 Make like a tree and leave.

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