Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20010829230037.04c98fb0@imap.local.mscha.com> X-Sender: ml@imap.local.mscha.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 23:03:39 +0200 To: "Michael F. March" , "John Marshall" , From: Michael Schaap Subject: Re: On Cygwin package naming and a setup.exe bug In-Reply-To: <017d01c130ad$7985eca0$0d76aec7@D4LHBR01> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: at mscha.org by amavisd-milter snapshot-20010714 (http://amavis.org/) At 19:08 29-8-2001, Michael F. March wrote: >Is there a reason why all the packages for Cygwin are not >managed via RPM instead of these compressed tar balls? For one, a Cygwin RPM would not be able to install cygwin1.dll. (That's why setup.exe is not a cygwin app.) >Christopher Faylor wrote: > > If I make an RPM, that does not mean that said RPM is now an official > > part of the Red Hat distribution. It means that it is a Red Hat Package > > Manager file. > >Right. It's not an official part of the Red Hat distribution. But it >*is* conveniently installable by the "rpm" tool, or any other tool used >to install Red Hat Package Manager packages. If I make a tar.gz, it is conveniently installable by the GNU "tar" tool, or any other tool used to install tar.gz files. :-) -- I always wondered about the meaning of life. So I looked it up in the dictionary under "L" and there it was - the meaning of life. It was not what I expected. - Dogbert -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/