Re: [arch-general] RPM Question

On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Lew Wolfgang <wolfgang@sweet-haven.com>wrote:

So the question is: can Arch be configured/tricked into an rpm install?

If you can get a hold of the rpm spec file, you could feed it to spec2arch (from pkgtools), run makepkg -s on the resultant PKGBUILD, and modify their script to use pacman -U /path/to/your/pkg instead of rpm.