Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 4:51
PM
Subject: RE: (clug-talk) RPM on
Gentoo.
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'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.
Shawn
So has anyone tried the RPM installer on
Gentoo? How well does it work, and what disadvantages did you
experience? Does it totally screw up emerge if some RPMs are
installed, and some apps are emerged?
I have 2 closed source applications
(Samsung Contact in particular) that have RPM installs, and I'm
wondering if they would install for me. I'd appreciate any
experience or advice people could offer.
Thanks
Kev.
