[gentoo-user] Re: [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo

2009-04-06 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Mick wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo

2009-04-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo

2009-04-06 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
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