Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/07/22/18:10:18
Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2008-07-18, r wrote:
>> I'm new about cygwin, but I use from a lot SuSE and OpenSuSE
>> can I install packages rpm from linux distributions on cygwin ?
> No. First off, Cygwin doesn't use Red Hat's package manager, it
> uses its own package manager, setup.exe. Secondly, binaries built
> for Linux will not run under Cygwin--the binary interfaces to the
> operating system are totally different.
Er, what's the purpose, then, of 'rpm.exe' that can be installed
with 'setup.exe'?
If "you" had a Cygwin-related/-dependent package, that
"you" wished to distribute to a group of users (say, >> 25),
What utility would you use to install this package?
The package would consist mostly of scripts -- bash, gawk, perl;
quite a few soft links, and some man pages, some documentation in
HTML format.
Would you use?:
* Make?
* Custom perl script?
* Custom bash script?
* Custom setup.ini & setup.exe?
* Or what?
Thanks,
Lee
Lee Rothstein
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