That would indeed be an interesting addition! I can see a few problems already. Different dependency names would be a problem - ie on gentoo a dependency might be named foo, on redhat it might be named foo2, on SuSE it might be named libfoo and on Mandrivel it might be named libfoo-2. In other words spec files may be different on different rpm distros and may use different namings to gentoo. SuSE installs kde to /opt, others don't etc etc .
So you not only have to create a spec file, but you have to create one for each distro, and you have to have a lot of knowledge about how $DISTRO works. Another strategy for you is to find a src.rpm for the package and adapt its .spec file. I found an old (0.2) src rpm for netselect (from SuSE 7.3!) via google. If I cared enough I guess I could adapt it's spec file to another distro. Actually I stumbled on a part of the Mandrake site once that had just the spec files for all their packages - that might be worth a look given RH and MD's common (although now distant) origins. One of the things I like about gentoo is the ease of writing a .ebuild file as opposed to a spec file or whatever the .deb equivalent is. On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:54:55 -0700 (PDT) Bryan Whitehead wrote: > > Does anyone know how to do this? There are some simple pachakes (like > netselect) that I'd love to use at work - but don't want to go thru the > hastle of making a rpm .spec file. > > "ebuild <file> rpm" only poops out a binary RPM... and using an updated > gentoo system doesn't move over well with old versions of redhat... > > -- > Bryan Whitehead > Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > [email protected] mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [email protected] mailing list
