[gentoo-user] Re: rpm or deb package installs

[James]

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes:


> I see you are doing more than I thought you were doing
>
> rpms and debs are both cpio files so the easy way is to unpack them and
> see what's going on:
>
> rpm2cpio name.rpm | cpio -iv --make-directories
> dpkg -x somepackage.deb ~/temp/
>
> Considering the size of what you are doing, you are probably better off
> running a Centos and Debian system to evaluate the code and discard the
> rubbish. Once you've isolated the interesting ones, you can evaluate
> them closer and maybe write ebuilds for them.

Workflow is the first test. Second unpack and look at the code
to maybe 5% of what I test. The tests I'm developing are low
level code profiling. Once I figure it all out what I need manually
looking at many (cluster/hpc) codes, then I hope to use CI
to automate the process of first performance profiling the codes.


THEN unpack and look at the codes iff it is impressive on performance. 

I am leaning towards a separate box for these evaluations, but a 
VM environment might be better in the long run...   dunno....


thx,
James