A tool to generate Gentoo ebuilds from various sources
Named after the alien tool from Debian.
The goal of this project is to create a tool that can be used to easily create Gentoo ebuilds from various sources.
Hackish proof-of-concept bash script to explore what we need. Maybe refactor later to a real language
sourceforge.net, the Debian project and other well-known web sites all have information which can be used to extract information about their hosted software.
elien should use this information to fill in the metadata bits in an ebuild
Primarily should fill in ebuild inherit and build info
Examples: autotools, boost-build, scons, Python ...
Where available, build info from other packages should be converted to ebuilds.
Examples: .deb has the debian/rules and other build instructions
.rpm has .spec files
Arch AUR/PKGBUILD files are poor-mans ebuilds anyway