X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4F8F062A.9030506@gmail.com> References: <4F7FEF5B.5060206@gmail.com> <4F8D066B.2060900@tlinx.org> <4F8EBDF0.4080407@gmail.com> <20120418140309.GC29332@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4F8EE652.6060203@gmail.com> <20120418170808.GC30849@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4F8F062A.9030506@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:30:24 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Can RPM packages be installed into Cygwin? From: Earnie Boyd To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 2:21 PM, De-Jian Zhao wrote: > > Thank you, Christopher. Is there a way to export the package info or lib > info of setup.exe to rpm? If they can share information, the problem will be > easily solved. > You can always read the source code to determine how to read the package info of setup.exe. > Besides, I tried --nodeps option with src.rpm. It requires root privilege > (see below). However, "sudo rpm" and "su root" both failed to work. Any way > to fix it? Does Cygwin has a root user? It would be the Windows administrator user. You probably need to execute mkpasswd. See http://cygwin.com/faq/ and search for passwd on the page. -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd -- 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