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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild
From:       Nistor Andrei <coder.tux () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-05-11 10:25:46
Message-ID: 200705111325.46390.coder.tux () gmail ! com
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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 binary package...). That should make portage aware of
> > the package being installed, but I think that you must install the deps
> > by hand...
>
> 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 actually .tar.gz archives?
> As these are private, company packages, nothing else in the tree is going
> to depend on it, so you don't really need to install it via portage,
> although it does make tracking the package's dependencies easier.


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