Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo
On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:41:43 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Thanks Neil, is that the equivalent of running: yum install /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/packageXXX.el5.i386.rpm No. It is equivalent to running rpm2targz on RH and them extracting the tarball to / :P It is equivalent to extracting *any* tarball to / for that matter. More specifically, it does not run any pre/post-install scripts in the RPM. There is an rpm package too, but this almost always fails because the RPM database shows no dependencies installed. If you're familiar with ebuilds, you can write one that does all this so you can do emerge packageXXX to install it. And there's an rpm.eclass to do some of the work for you. -- Neil Bothwick I've seen the procedure hundreds of times. - Qwark signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo
2009/4/6 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk: On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:41:43 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: If you're familiar with ebuilds, you can write one that does all this so you can do emerge packageXXX to install it. And there's an rpm.eclass to do some of the work for you. If you also have access to the source rpm, you can create an ebuild with the help of the above mentioned eclass which just takes care of the proper unpacking of the rpm source. You will find some information here [1] or directly in the eclass which is located in your portage tree in the eclass directory. [1] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/functions/src_unpack/rpm-sources/index.html -- Regards, Daniel
