Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo

2009-04-06 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2009/4/6 Neil Bothwick : > On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:41:43 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> If you're familiar with ebuilds, you can write one that does all this >> so you can do "emerge packageXXX" to install it. > > And there's an rpm.eclass to do some of the work for you. If you also have acce

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo

2009-04-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:41:43 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > Thanks Neil, is that the equivalent of running: > > > > yum install /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/packageXXX.el5.i386.rpm > No. It is equivalent to running rpm2targz on RH and them extracting > the tarball to / :P It is equivalent to

[gentoo-user] Re: [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo

2009-04-06 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Mick wrote: 2009/4/6 Neil Bothwick : On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 06:41:53 +0100, Mick wrote: How can I use this on a gentoo machine (I understand that it won't be maintained by portage). Use rpm2targz to turn it into a tarball, then unpack it into your root filesystem (after first checking the content