Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] How to incorporate "foreign tarball" into world
Date:	Sat, 13 Aug 2005 08:58:39
Message-Id:	`20050813095220.20e2e651@hactar.digimed.co.uk`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] How to incorporate "foreign tarball" into world by Walter Dnes

1	On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 01:53:41 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
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3	> I hate when this happens. I know that I read somewhere in the docs
4	> that you can take a tarball of an app that doesn't have a Gentoo ebuild
5	> and incorporate it into your "world" file, so that it knows at least
6	> that the app is installed, and how to remove it. But I can't seem to
7	> find that reference now. Am I mis-remembering, or does it really exist?
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9	> The particular item I'm interested in is a perl module called
10	> "exiftool"
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12	Is this in CPAN? If so, you can merge it with g-cpan
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15	--
16	Neil Bothwick
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18	Electrocution, n.:
19	Burning at the stake with all the modern improvements.

Subject	Author
Re: [gentoo-user] How to incorporate "foreign tarball" into world	Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>