X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <448C7B87.4070703@rvmgroup.it> Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 22:22:31 +0200 From: "gabriele.mailing@rvmgroup.it" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: RPM's (was Re: unix 'at' command implementation) References: <061020062022.10945.448B29F200067FE000002AC122068246930A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net> <448B643D.6040401@tlinx.org> <448BA449.9000008@cygwin.com> <448C2F76.6020607@ukf.net> <448C4719.80204@rvmgroup.it> <20060611183039.GD12755@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: <20060611183039.GD12755@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Christopher Faylor wrote > That's precisely why people think about integrating something like rpm > or deb into the packaging system. May be someone has found the right way: cyg-apt. It is in an early stage, does not handle 'in-use' file substitution, but for simple update-upgrade, it works. I'm not saying that tar.bz2 is not a good packaging format, but only point out that now there is no CLI alternative to setup.exe. Administering a Cygwin environment from the command line is better in IMHO. > I would hate to see this thread become a wish-fest when there is > obviously no one interested in doing this work. My skills are too low to start and finish such a project. I'm not a coder, I'm a SysAdmin... -- Diesis -- 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/