Hello All, I have been fiddling with Portage for a few weeks now. Recently, I was trying to get the RPM creation with ebuild to work a little better. I noticed that currently emerge does not support building RPMs, but ebuild does.
I have added some code to emerge that can build RPM for a package and all its dependencies. It will optionally merge the package to the system or just build an RPM. I am basically making this work very similar to the --buildpkg and --buildpkgonly options.
I am using --buildrpm (-r) and --buildrpmonly (-R) options currently for these two tasks. However, if those two short options are reserved for some other purpose, I am fine with changing them. (If so, please suggest different short options).
If this functionality is likely to be useful to other people also, I would love to submit a patch.
I think I have somewhat older version of portage. Which version should I build the patch against, if I have to?
Thanks, Nimish -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
