Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo
Neil Bothwick writes: On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 06:41:53 +0100, Mick wrote: How can I use this on a gentoo machine (I understand that it won't be maintained by portage). Use rpm2targz to turn it into a tarball, then unpack it into your root filesystem (after first checking the contents). Or into the /usr/local hierarchy to keep the stuff separated - who knows what this would overwrite. I would even consider using xstow for this: emerge xstow rpm2targz packageXXX.el5.i386.rpm mkdir -p /usr/local/stow/packageXXX tar -C /usr/local/stow/packageXXX -xf packageXXX.tgz cd /usr/local/stow xstow packageXXX xtow creates symlinks, so /usr/local/stow/packageXXX/bin/foo will also be found in /usr/local/bin/foo, and so on. To uninstall, just call xstow -D packageXXX from /usr/lcoal/stow, and remove the packageXXX diretory. Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo
On Monday 06 April 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: Correct way: realize you are trying to do something no package manager is built to do. So, you do it manually. Convert the rpm to a tarball, extract it and do all install steps manually. It's a good idea to install the binaries to /usr/local/ or /opt/ - the correct place to put binaries unknown to a package manger (portage won't nuke them there) Thank you all for your advice. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 06:41:53 +0100, Mick wrote: How can I use this on a gentoo machine (I understand that it won't be maintained by portage). Use rpm2targz to turn it into a tarball, then unpack it into your root filesystem (after first checking the contents). -- Neil Bothwick I am neither for nor against apathy. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo
2009/4/6 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk: On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 06:41:53 +0100, Mick wrote: How can I use this on a gentoo machine (I understand that it won't be maintained by portage). Use rpm2targz to turn it into a tarball, then unpack it into your root filesystem (after first checking the contents). Thanks Neil, is that the equivalent of running: yum install /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/packageXXX.el5.i386.rpm on RH? -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo
Mick schrieb: Hi All, I have an rpm binary which looks like this on a RH machine: /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/packageXXX.el5.i386.rpm How can I use this on a gentoo machine (I understand that it won't be maintained by portage). Just emerge yum. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo
On Monday 06 April 2009 14:30:55 Justin wrote: Mick schrieb: Hi All, I have an rpm binary which looks like this on a RH machine: /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/packageXXX.el5.i386.rpm How can I use this on a gentoo machine (I understand that it won't be maintained by portage). Just emerge yum. No, just don't. How do you expect yum to operate correctly without a gully populated rpm database? It will fail (as already said by another poster). Fact is, a portage system is in no state to deal with an rpm natively. It doesn't know what to do with it, doesn't understand how or where to get the pre/post install scripts and rpm does not know how to deal with portage file collisions. You are asking a user to run two package managers in parallel, both unaware of each other. This is suicide. Correct way: realize you are trying to do something no package manager is built to do. So, you do it manually. Convert the rpm to a tarball, extract it and do all install steps manually. It's a good idea to install the binaries to /usr/local/ or /opt/ - the correct place to put binaries unknown to a package manger (portage won't nuke them there) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo
Hi All, I have an rpm binary which looks like this on a RH machine: /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/packageXXX.el5.i386.rpm How can I use this on a gentoo machine (I understand that it won't be maintained by portage). -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
