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
>
>
>
>

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