A couple of years ago there was a howto floating about for using portage on other distros. It was possible at that stage, maybe it still is.
the instructions at the time were basically: untar the portage emergency snapshot into your distro (thats the portage programs tarred up for those unfortunate occasions when you have accidentally erased it) use it! However i cannot find the howto now on a quick google. There is also something called emerde floating about that might help. On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 11:15:56 -0500 Dave Nebinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just how does an ebuild work, would it be > > easy to make a bash scipt which Slackware already use for building > > packages? > > Emerge et. Al. are python-based scripts for the most part, but they have a > great deal of dependencies for the rest of the system. > > For example, if you check your /etc/init.d files you'll see in gentoo that > they are basically extensions of /sbin/runscript. There's other > expectations (i.e. slotted automake/autoconf, etc) that also needed. > > While the ebuild script might be portable (I don't really know for sure), I > doubt that you could easily overlay gentoo stuff onto a slackware dist. > > > For a real Gentoo issue I'm depending on the 2.6 kernel and used the > > bootstrap-26 script and built the 2.6 kernel. After this ordeal I was > > still > > not rewarded with any bttv drivers. Now can I rectify the .config and > > still > > use 'genkernel' or should I install the kernel as I do in every distro? > > And > > why are they disabled in the kernel, is it endorsed to build the driver > > from > > bytesex.org? > > I think you'll get different results depending upon who you ask for this > one. I tend to manage my own kernel, but I do it specifically because I > have my own preferences about what should be in-kernel and what should be > modules, etc. > > > > -- > [email protected] mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [email protected] mailing list
