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create Gentoo ebuilds from Whonix source packages #11

Open adrelanos opened 9 years ago

adrelanos commented 9 years ago

There are ~110 Whonix source packages (list). Containing config files, scripts, dependencies. Those source packages currently contain also a /debian/ folder so Debian packages can be easily created.

Just finished researching. It looks like there is no commonly used tool to install debs on Gentoo or for converting debs to ebuilds. According to search engines, very few people are doing this. Some are using dpkg on Gentoo, but apt-get not so much. But we'd need apt-get to manage dependencies. So I conclude, that conversion/installing of debs on Gentoo would be a fragile unusable way to move forward. Creating ebuilds seems much saner and cleaner.

Thanks to generic packaging (#9) it fortunately won't be as much work as it would be if there was no generic packaging.

TODO: create Gentoo ebuilds from Whonix source packages

adrelanos commented 9 years ago

Not all source packages need to be packaged as ebuild. For example the anon-apt-sources-list is Debian specific and would make no sense being installing on Gentoo. But this is getting pretty obvious and clear when going through the packages one by one.