34263 – autorpm-3.3.ebuild (New package)

Bug 34263 - autorpm-3.3.ebuild (New package)

Summary: autorpm-3.3.ebuild (New package)

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Desktop Misc. Team

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Reported:	2003-11-24 08:34 UTC by Diego Zamboni
Modified:	2003-12-06 08:56 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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autorpm-3.3.ebuild (New package) (autorpm-3.3.ebuild,1.56 KB, text/plain) 2003-11-24 08:36 UTC, Diego Zamboni	Details
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Description Diego Zamboni 2003-11-24 08:34:01 UTC

Hi,

Please find attached autorpm-3.3.ebuild.

Autorpm is a tool for automatically installing and updating RPM packages. As such, it will probably not be needed by most Gentoo users, but it may be useful for some people that need to build or test RPM packages on a Gentoo system.

It depends on perl and rpm. I suggest app-arch/autorpm as its location.

Best regards,
--Diego

Comment 1 Diego Zamboni 2003-11-24 08:36:50 UTC

Created attachment 21208 [details]
autorpm-3.3.ebuild (New package)

Comment 2 Ian Leitch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-11-25 05:48:07 UTC

Is there need for this? The usual way of handling RPMs in Gentoo is to convert them to tar.gz using rpm2targz and merging them normaly.

Whats everyone else think?

Comment 3 Diego Zamboni 2003-11-25 06:21:01 UTC

(I'm the author of the ebuild)

AutoRPM can be a useful tool in some circumstances, even if you don't install RPMs on your system. The reason I use it is that one of my projects is a customized RPM-based Linux distribution. AutoRPM is used to check a set of RPMs stored in a directory (not installed on the system) and see if any of them need to be upgraded to newer versions. So no RPMs are installed on the machine, autorpm is only used as a tool to manage directories containing RPMs.

Since I wrote it for myself (to avoid having manually-installed things on my system, or start mucking with installing rpms), I thought I'd contribute it.

Comment 4 Brandon Hale (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-12-06 08:56:21 UTC

This sounds like it has a very limited audience, especially within Gentoo.
While I appreciate your submission, I must admit I don't see much reason
to add it to the tree.

Thanks,
--tseng