Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/03/08/04:03:49
Max Bowsher wrote:
>
> > I'm not quite sure rpm really is desirable for the Cygwin dist, unless it
> > was decided to transition to rpm packages exclusively once setup was
> > suitably adapted.
>
> Well, there are grand designs eventually to generalize setup so that it
> can accept tar.bz2 (or .cyg?) packages, as well as linking to (a windows
> native version of...) librpm and libdeb to provide rpm and deb support.
> There are, of course, MAJOR difficulties with this, which have yet to
> be addressed (like keeping the setup installed.db, rpm's db, and deb's
> "db" all in sync. Bringing setup's native dependency-resolution logic
> up to the level provided by deb and to a lesser extent rpm.
> Commandline/scripting support. etc etc)
>
> But, rpm has been around for years on cygwin without the sky falling. I
> used it back when I provided perl-for-cygwin, as a means of keeping
> track of binary dists of perl modules. I'm sure there are other,
> similiarly limited uses that won't cause armageddon.
yes, an example are the original kde3 i18n rpm language packages which are
directly usable for kde3/cygwin. Using this rpm packages avoids the needs for
repackaging of about 50 packages.
Ralf
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