Mick wrote:
2009/4/6 Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk>:
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 contents).
Thanks Neil, is that the equivalent of running:
yum install /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/packageXXX.el5.i386.rpm
on RH?
No. It is equivalent to running rpm2targz on RH and them extracting the
tarball to / :P It is equivalent to extracting *any* tarball to / for
that matter.
If you're familiar with ebuilds, you can write one that does all this so
you can do "emerge packageXXX" to install it.
