[maemo-developers] installing sdk on gentoo

[From: Fred Labrosse]

On Thursday 20 Mar 2008, nick loeve wrote:
> 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.

There are also ebuilds for scratchbox  here and there and you'll find very 
useful instructions at http://www.janerob.com/rob/MaemoOnGentoo.html

Fred