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Date: | Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:25:03 +1100 |
From: | Chris Cormie <cjcormie AT gmail DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: Parallel downloading of Cygwin packages |
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> There are barriers to implementing rpm in Cygwin, the most frequently > mentioned being the fact that a cygwin process can't easily replace > cygwin1.dll or any other running executables. If the in-Cygwin package manager can't update core Cygwin, that's not a deal breaker IMO: there is a fair bit of useful app package management that can be done without changing the core. As for running executables -- well, perhaps this is more of my ignorance :) but couldn't a well behaved package close down running services in the preremove script? (In the case the package was being upgraded.) Best Regards, Chris -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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