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squareHat Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 89 Location: London
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Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2003 5:54 am Post subject: Converting from RPM |
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I have an application (only the binaries) that requires RPM to do the install. Can I convert is to some format that I can easily install on gentoo. ? Or can I use RPM in this one case.
I have not installed getoo yet, as I need to able to install this one app. |
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red_over_blue Guru
Joined: 16 Dec 2002 Posts: 310
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Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2003 6:08 am Post subject: |
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RPM is in the portage tree. It works just fine and is used in the exact same way as in a normal rpm distro. The only thing that you would have to ensure is that all the dependencies of the rpm are met either by other rpms or by ebuilds in the portage tree.
Of course, you should use portage ebuilds if they are available. You don't want to try to install rpms that will overlap over ebuilds that you have emerged. |
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Braempje l33t
Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Posts: 748
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Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2003 6:10 am Post subject: Re: Converting from RPM |
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squareHat wrote: | I have an application (only the binaries) that requires RPM to do the install. Can I convert is to some format that I can easily install on gentoo. ? Or can I use RPM in this one case.
I have not installed getoo yet, as I need to able to install this one app. |
Rpm is provided as a program, so you won't have any trouble, altough I don't know how portage likes rpm'ed programs.
Anyway, are you sure there is no ebuild for the program? Making an own ebuild isn't that hard too (I haven't done it myself, I admit...) |
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pjp Administrator
Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20048
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Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2003 2:40 pm Post subject: |
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Portage will not be able to manage any programs that are nstalled via RPM (just in case that wasn't clear).
I'm not an RPM user, but I thought there was something that converted RPMs to tgz's (or similar)... might that work? Of course, an ebuild would still need to be made. _________________ Quis separabit? Quo animo? |
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lotusvale Guru
Joined: 06 Mar 2003 Posts: 339 Location: Canada
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Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2003 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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pjp wrote: | Portage will not be able to manage any programs that are nstalled via RPM (just in case that wasn't clear).
I'm not an RPM user, but I thought there was something that converted RPMs to tgz's (or similar)... might that work? Of course, an ebuild would still need to be made. |
i was also interested in making an ebuild. any links to where to start? _________________
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Braempje l33t
Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Posts: 748
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Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2003 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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lotusvale wrote: | pjp wrote: | Portage will not be able to manage any programs that are nstalled via RPM (just in case that wasn't clear).
I'm not an RPM user, but I thought there was something that converted RPMs to tgz's (or similar)... might that work? Of course, an ebuild would still need to be made. |
i was also interested in making an ebuild. any links to where to start? |
The docs are your friend: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-howto.xml |
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