From: Brown AT sw DOT mke DOT etn DOT com (Marcus Brown) Subject: RE: CD-based distribution (was Another website....) 12 Aug 1998 22:23:03 -0700 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Robert Read , Marcus Brown Cc: Robert DOT Cross AT scottish-newcastle DOT co DOT uk, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Well, I couldn't really say anything about the Debian tools since I've never used the Debian distribution, only RedHat and Slackware. The rpm port to cygwin32 that I have seen is solid, and works fine with source rpms (haven't tried binary so don't quote me on this :). If there is a better or more convenient way to package distributions I'd be glad to take a look at it, rpm is the first thing that came to mind. A more pressing issue would seem to be what would actually be included in this distribution... Marcus -- Robert Read wrote: What about the Debian .deb tools? I've never compared the two side by side, but Debian seemed have a better handle on package dependencies and also a better support for upgrades. The package selection application was a bit obtuse, though. robert - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".