[maemo-developers] installing sdk on gentoo

[From: nick loeve]

Hi,

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 3:26 AM, Chuck Robey <chuckr at chuckr.org> wrote:
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> Scott Carr wrote:
>  > Quoting Chuck Robey <chuckr at chuckr.org>:
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> > I am still installing the sdk.  I have gotten to the point where it's
>  > asking me to install the Debian packages, and I'm not sure, is this an
>  > optional item, or could I pass it up?  I'm running Gentoo, and I really,
>  > really would NOT want to install a second package system onto this box.
>  > I'm just trying to find out if this part is optional, because I have tools
>  > on my gentoo box to convert rpm packages to .tar.gz things which I am far
>  > more comfortable with, and I wouldn't install any package system outside of
>  > Gentoo's portage, if it's in any way possible to operate the sdk without it.

If you use the install scripts from
http://maemo.org/development/sdks/maemo_4_chinook_sdk.html then you do
not need the debian tools

The scratchbox installer will use tarballs to install scratchbox, and
the the SDK installs a debian-like setup under scratchbox.

Its kinda like setting up a chroot.


>  >
>  > Thanks.
>
>
> > I am using the VMWare image to do development on Gentoo.  Seemed like
>  > the safest without messing up the normal Gentoo environment.  You can
>  > run it through the VMWare Player.
>
>
>  Well, I appreciate the pointer, but you missed the question (I think ?),
>  which was, can you use the sdk WITHOUT installing either the Debian or
>  RedHat package tools?  I dislike them strongly, and would skip them if
>  there was any possible way to do that.  I already have a tool called
>  rpm2targz on my Gentoo system, you can just guess what that does, huh?
>
>  Regardless, appreciate it.
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