Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 15:35:36 -0700 From: Dario Alcocer To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RPM support (was Re: qmail port successfull) Message-ID: <20030529153536.A31015@ns.helixdigital.com> References: <3ED5C5F4.7080208@lapo.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu on Thu, May 29, 2003 at 11:28:14AM -0400 On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 11:28:14AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 29 May 2003, Lapo Luchini wrote: > > This reminds me that maybe it could be cool to have an "install" option > > in "type 2 packages" that installs them directly, without bothering to > > have a "fake" local setup.ini, starting setup, let it install the > > package... this would need some command line "installed package db" > > management of some kind. Or it is already out there, only I didn't > > notice it? > > Isn't that what the RPM port eventually hopes to accomplish? ;-) Yes, at least those are /my/ plans. FWIW, I hoping to use apt-rpm. -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc. alcocer@helixdigital.com -- http://www.helixdigital.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/