X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:40:02 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Parallel downloading of Cygwin packages Message-ID: <20091031024002.GA19570@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4AEAD9EE.4010009@gamr7.com> <20091030125852.GB1361@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4AEBA0D2.5060001@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4AEBA0D2.5060001@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 01:28:34PM +1100, Chris Cormie wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> I'd like the installer to use a more intuitive UI, be more capable of >> running from the command line, and be able to handle RPMs. >http://code.google.com/p/cyg-apt/ >(Command line installer project.) > >Doesn't handle RPMs, only Cygwin packages. Does have a apt-get style >interface. I'm thinking RPM support is a bit beside the point? Nope. A real package manager would be very nice. >A binary RPM from a different distro won't work, packages usually need >porting to > Cygwin -- that's all part of the Cygwin package system. > >If you only need to install specific packages, setup.exe has you covered: >$./setup-1.7.exe -q -P joe I'm very well aware of setup's capabilities. I am one of the authors after all. cgf -- 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