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dp

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From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

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.ebuild to PKGBUILD

what about a script that translates ebuilds from Pygoscelis papua to Arch's PKGBUILD's?

(in my eyes, it's more logical than trying to translate already built pkgs from other distros)

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contrasutra

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From: New Jersey

Registered: 2003-07-26

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Re: .ebuild to PKGBUILD

I'd say that's near impossible. Ebuilds have lots of nifty functions, like importing other ebuilds, and it would be a huge mess.

I think you could do it by hand though. Make a PKGBUILD and use the ebuilds as reference. Like copy some of the compiling parts, etc.

But you couldn't just do a strait convert, because things like dependencies might be different. Plus, ebuilds separate the building parts more. They also have things like USE tags which complicate the process.

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Xentac

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From: Victoria, BC

Registered: 2003-01-17

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Re: .ebuild to PKGBUILD

They also install directly to the filesystem.

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