Well I package for both arch and a popular rpm distro. And I basically just use the source and the info in either the rpm spec file or the arch pkgbuild file and manually translate to the other.
After doing 100 packages or so, this is the fastest way to get things *properly* working. I emphasize *properly* because if the rpm is anything more complicated than the most trivial stuff, the rpm2tgz to arch package will probably be lousy. If you have not YET written a pkgbuild, I also recommend this method, you will learn a lot along this road that will serve you well in the future. Anyways, that's my two cents worth. Very best regards; Bob Finch > I know a lot of people may think this is a dumb idea, and maybe it > already exists and I'm blind to noticiing it. But I imagine there are > several cases where people would want to install a very occasional rpm > on arch. And if I'm correct currently, without downloading rpm2tgz from > somewhere, you have to use rpm2cpio and then cpio to get at the rpm? > The process of doing it, from what I remember of doing it last time is a > bit confusing (rpm2tgz is much more friendly to use). > I wondered if it might not be a bad idea to allow pacman to > directly/indirectly (like with a script) have an option to handle rpm > installations? It would be especially nice for installing things like > those pesky ati drivers! > > Just my $.02. > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
