quoth the Florian Philipp:
Maybe I should formulate another question: Where is the big difference
between a binary ebuild and a binary rpm / deb and why is it so hard to
convert them?
Another thought:
Unless I've missed it, you've not mentioned *what* it is you have an RPM
for. Have
On Fri, 11 May 2007 12:43:50 +0300, Nistor Andrei wrote:
Just a thought... I think you could use alien to convert the rpm to a
tar.gz,
Use rpm2tgxz to do that.
then use emerge /path/to/whatever.tar.gz. (IIRC that's a way
you can install a binary package...). That should make portage aware
On Fri, 11 May 2007 13:25:46 +0300, Nistor Andrei wrote:
That won't work, emerge can only work with ebuilds or portage binary
packages. You can either write your own ebuild to install the binary,
which is pretty straightforward, or simply unpack it to /.
Portage binary packages aren't
On Thursday 10 May 2007, Florian Philipp wrote:
Hi!
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.
Anyway, how
On Friday 11 May 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 11 May 2007 12:43:50 +0300, Nistor Andrei wrote:
Just a thought... I think you could use alien to convert the rpm to a
tar.gz,
Use rpm2tgxz to do that.
then use emerge /path/to/whatever.tar.gz. (IIRC that's a way
you can install a
, but
if those scripts needed for installation, the hard life goes on.
Ciao
Alessandro
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild
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quoth the Florian Philipp:
Hi!
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.
Anyway, how do I install packages
On Thursday 10 May 2007 21:06:13 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
darren kirby ha scritto:
Well, you can install RPM...
# emerge -p rpm
You could then, presumably, install the RPM, though I have not ever tried
this:
# rpm -i foopackage.i386.rpm
I fear this way Portage would not be aware of the package being
installed. Am I wrong?
m.
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Am Donnerstag 10 Mai 2007 21:53 schrieb Bo Ørsted Andresen:
On Thursday 10 May 2007 21:06:13 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
quoth the b.n.:
darren kirby ha scritto:
Well, you can install RPM...
# emerge -p rpm
You could then, presumably, install the RPM, though I have not ever tried
this:
# rpm -i foopackage.i386.rpm
I fear this way Portage would not be aware of the package being
installed. Am I
On Friday 11 May 2007 00:12:43 b.n. wrote:
# rpm -i foopackage.i386.rpm
I fear this way Portage would not be aware of the package being
installed. Am I wrong?
No, you are correct.
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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.
quoth the b.n.:
darren kirby ha scritto:
Well, you can install RPM...
# emerge -p rpm
You could then, presumably, install the RPM, though I have not ever
tried this:
# rpm -i foopackage.i386.rpm
I fear this way Portage would not be aware of the package being
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 22:29 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
On Thursday 10 May 2007 22:16:59 Florian Philipp wrote:
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
Am Donnerstag 10 Mai 2007 22:29 schrieb Bo Ørsted Andresen:
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 Thu, 10 May 2007 22:36:41 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
Maybe I should formulate another question: Where is the big difference
between a binary ebuild and a binary rpm / deb and why is it so hard to
convert them?
The only real difference is the packaging method. The extra information
El Thu, 10 May 2007 22:36:41 +0200
Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
Maybe I should formulate another question: Where is the big
difference between a binary ebuild and a binary rpm / deb and why is
it so hard to convert them?
The difference is that Gentoo is not RPM based. Could it
On Thursday 10 May 2007 22:36:41 Florian Philipp wrote:
Maybe I should formulate another question: Where is the big difference
between a binary ebuild and a binary rpm / deb and why is it so hard to
convert them?
Gentoo is a source based distro. Usually in Gentoo binary packages are placed
in
quoth the Florian Philipp:
Maybe I should formulate another question: Where is the big difference
between a binary ebuild and a binary rpm / deb and why is it so hard to
convert them?
Another thought:
Unless I've missed it, you've not mentioned *what* it is you have an RPM for.
Have you
On Thu, 10 May 2007 22:12:43 +
b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
darren kirby ha scritto:
Well, you can install RPM...
# emerge -p rpm
You could then, presumably, install the RPM, though I have not ever
tried this:
# rpm -i foopackage.i386.rpm
I fear this way Portage would
Hi,
On Thu, 10 May 2007 22:50:42 +0200
Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since I can install an rpm after emerging rpm itself, there is no need to
convert it. All I have to do is to make portage aware of this package. Of
course I would have to take care of dependencies myself and let
Am Donnerstag, 10. Mai 2007 schrieb ext Florian Philipp:
Anyway, how do I install packages in .rpm or .deb without messing up
portage?
Write an ebuild for it. portage uses rpm packages just like tar.gz.
See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103406 for an example ebuild that
uses a
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