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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