Subject: Re: Bogus hostname forcing in RedHat source RPMS
From: Earnie Boyd <[email-masked]>
To: "Charles S. Wilson" <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Cc: cygwin <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 05:57:43 -0800 (PST)

--- "Charles S. Wilson" <[email-masked]> wrote:
> "Stephen C. Biggs" wrote:
> > 
> > This is a real shame, if there is no way to override the bogus
> > hostname, because, with my port for RPM 4.0, cygwin users can
> > rebuild and use almost all of the nifty Linux tools that redhat has.
> 
> I hate to burst your bubble, but cygwin is not linux.  The only packages
> for which your statement is true, are those that have already been
> ported to work with cygwin, or you get lucky (see below).  It just ain't
> as simple as:
> 

I would like to also add that discussions of RPM is OT for this list.

Cheers,

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Earnie Boyd
mailto:[email-masked]

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