I would like an ebuild for the RedHat configuration programs - to configure an Xserver, video card, sound card, firewall, etc. These programs would provide users much needed configuration utilities. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
That would be a difficult port. Those configuration tools are commonly frontends to command line tools, and they must follow the inner working of a distribution. Since RedHat is very different than Gentoo, there would be much problem (I'm thinking especially about init scripts and configuration files for services). Have you tried running them without an ebuild? If some of them work, I could write the ebuild for them. Hysteric
I've managed to get the samba config tool working. The only thing is that it required several packages which aren't in portage, so it would probably take a while for everything to get into portage. Another annoyance is that the dependencies, like libuser and usermode don't seem to have a homepage, or somewhere where they can be downloaded, as far as I can tell. So, I ended up having to use the source rpm's from the fedora site. To facilitate dealing with source rpms, I've made up an eclass to help unpacking source rpms.
Somehow I overlooked the fact that there was an rpm eclass already that handles source rpms. I've been able to get several of these tools working, and have ebuilds. I put up an overlay with the ones I have working, and their dependencies, at http://www.rpi.edu/~nichoj/redhat-tools-2005-04-08.tar.bz2 The ones I have working are: boot (note: this one doesn't have many features at the moment) date nfs samba users Disregard the one for httpd... there are a lot of dependencies I haven't gotten around to. Also, I'm adding a dependency to #88232 for linuxdoc-tools, which is a dependency of a library that the tools use.
I now have a website up with my latest developments, and a more recent overlay. This overlay is a lot more tested than my first one. http://sigmachi.yi.org/~nichoj/projects/redhat-tools.php
@nichoj - assigning to you. If you don't want it, move to maintainer-wanted; bug wranglers don't want this one. :)
Reassigning to me. I already added ebuilds to the tree, but I'd like to review these as well.
Closing, most of this stuff is already in the tree and working, and the former URL is gone.
