Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/03/31/04:16:36
Hello,
I'm going to try and link setup.exe against librpm, to make it possible (and
"feasible" ;-)) setup.exe and rpm both to be reciprocly updated.
I'm diving, and I give news when I emerge (or drawn...)
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>To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
>Subject: Re: RPM-4.1 port to cygwin available
>Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 22:40:03 -0500
>
>
>Peter Ring wrote:
>> There's substantial evidence that RPM based distribution of Cygwin is
>> feasible:
>>
>> http://www.holonlinux.com/product/xonwin/index.html
>>
>> Just in case you don't read Japanese, go directly to the FTP site:
>>
>> ftp://xow.holonlinux.com/pub/XonWindows/
>
>PETER!
>
>(In case anyone was wondering, Peter was one of those hardy souls
>working on porting rpm 'back in the day' -- IIRC Peter was working on
>early 4.0.x versions...)
>
>Yes, an RPM-based cygwin is feasible -- but the last time I looked, most
>
>of the competitors said something like: "First do (X) to install a basic
>
>cygwin system, and then use this tarball of rpm.exe, run rpm --initdb,
>then use rpm to install and/or update other parts of your system"
>
>Where (X) is "unpack a tarball" or "piggyback off setup.exe and only
>install these three packages" or somesuch.
>
>While *feasible,* that's not really *practical* as a "complete"
>distribution. Further, none of the schemes out there were capable of
>updating the cygwin dll itself -- because rpm.exe uses it. Nor could
>they update any other in-use files.
>
>However, things may have changed over the years. I dunno, and I'm too
>lazy to check now. :-)
>
>Personally, I'd welcome an official setup-installable package providing
>rpm. Here's why:
> 1) we'd probably see a number of folks -- those who don't want to
>permanently maintain a package, but want to provide it for people to use
>
>-- who'd choose to pack their contribution as rpms. (Preferably, these
>
>ad-hoc rpms would go somewhere like /usr/local or /opt/ or ANYWHERE
>except /usr and /usr/X11R6/ ).
>
> 2) as these numbers grow, folks might begin wondering how to (and
>provding code for) help setup.exe and rpm coexist -- updating each
>other's databases, maybe even linking setup.exe against librpm, etc etc.
>
> Of course, this requires that someone really really smart figure out
>the best way to create a "native" port of librpm -- that can still
>figure out where /var/cache/rpm and /etc and suchlike are really located...
>
>On the other hand, that was Robert's idea behind providing the dpkg
>stuff in setup-installable form, and the above sequence didn't happen
>for deb...
>
>--Chuck
>
>
>
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