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cyker

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Registered: 2009-05-30

Posts: 86

Convert rpm/deb to .pkg.tar.gz

I use checkinstall to prevent junk files ruining my system while installing a program from source. But checkinstall can only generate Slackware/rpm/deb packages. Is there any convenient way to directly convert rpm/deb to .pkg.tar.gz, which can be installed using pacman -U?

Note. By directly I mean no need to manually generate a PKGBUILD. The package information should be extracted from rpm/deb package automatically.

Thanks.

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Convert rpm/deb to .pkg.tar.gz

> Slackware/rpm/deb
IIRC Slackware uses plain tarballs, but this means no dep checks.

> Note. By directly I mean no need to manually generate a PKGBUILD.
PKGBUILDs are necessary only when you create sth from source. deb / rpm packages are already compiled.

Edit: spec2arch from pkgtools pacakge can create PKGBUILDs from .spec files, but I don't know if it's of any help.

Last edited by karol (2010-07-18 18:31:13)