On Monday 06 April 2009 14:30:55 Justin wrote: > Mick schrieb: > > Hi All, > > > > I have an rpm binary which looks like this on a RH > > machine: /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/packageXXX.el5.i386.rpm > > > > How can I use this on a gentoo machine (I understand that it won't be > > maintained by portage). > > Just emerge yum.
No, just don't. How do you expect yum to operate correctly without a gully populated rpm database? It will fail (as already said by another poster). Fact is, a portage system is in no state to deal with an rpm natively. It doesn't know what to do with it, doesn't understand how or where to get the pre/post install scripts and rpm does not know how to deal with portage file collisions. You are asking a user to run two package managers in parallel, both unaware of each other. This is suicide. Correct way: realize you are trying to do something no package manager is built to do. So, you do it manually. Convert the rpm to a tarball, extract it and do all install steps manually. It's a good idea to install the binaries to /usr/local/ or /opt/ - the correct place to put binaries unknown to a package manger (portage won't nuke them there) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
