On Thursday 10 May 2007 22:16:59 Florian Philipp wrote: > > > I thought this question would be quiet common but I've been unable to > > > get an answer googling and looking through howtos. Actually there are > > > some links in an old thread on forums.gentoo.org but its target seems > > > to have moved. > > > > Well, you can always make an ebuild for it. > > > > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/functions/src_unpack/rpm-sources/index.html > > Argh, that's the broken link I was talking about, thanks! > > However, it seems as if there is no "easy" way to perform it and there are > still some questions for me: > > 1. This page provides no way to handle a binary-only rpm, just sources. > Yet, sources are no problem since they should be available as a tarball or > in portage itself while rpms of proprietary closed-source software are > quiet common. I could transfer them into a .deb-archive using "alien" which > leads me to problem number 2 ...
There are plenty of ebuilds for binary only packages in the tree. The above link helps you to unpack the binary files to $WORKDIR. After that you can use the install functions [1] (or cp or whatever) in src_install() to install to the image ($D). And perhaps you need and env.d file or whatever else may be missing (for additions to *PATH variables). When all of that is done you can emerge it. And no, a .deb isn't any better. [1] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/function-reference/install-functions/index.html -- Bo Andresen
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