Nothing wrong with rolling my own, but the apps are closed source. I already asked, but I (as expected) got the thumbs down.
Kev. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jesse Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 8:32 PM Subject: RE: (clug-talk) RPM on Gentoo. > Quoting Shawn Grover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > My understanding is that you can use RPM without issues (other than > > standard > > dependency concerns), but will likely need to update your world entries > > manually. If anyone were to write an ebuild script for the package, it > > would depend on what you have in your world entries. I'd probably try to > > resolve the dependencies using emerge, then do the RPM. Then again, I > > haven't had to manually do an RPM yet, so I don't know all the details. > > I've never used Gentoo, but I'm guessing that if your just installing a single > package that other packages that you will be emerging don't depend on, then you > shouldn't have to mess around with emerge. You will get lots of dep. issues > since the RPM database will probably be empty, but you can just install those > deps with emerge and use an rpm --nodeps or rpm --force to install the rpm. > Then when you run the binary you will find out if it still has any dep. issues. > > > I'll probably be tackling this same issue in the not too distant future, as > > I'd like to run Samba 3.0. Last time I looked, there were no ebuild > > scripts > > for Samba 3.0 (final release). So, I'd be interested in hearing how this > > goes for you. > > What's wrong with the good old ./configure;make;make install? > > Jesse > > > >
