From: dsfox AT cogsci DOT ucsd DOT edu (David Fox) Subject: RPM version 2.5.3 17 Sep 1998 12:55:40 -0700 Message-ID: References: dsfox AT cogsci DOT ucsd DOT edu (David Fox) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com I'm releasing another version of RPM for cygwin32. I believe that the problems those brave souls who tried version 2.4.109 had were related to the non-existance of certain directories that the Unix version of RPM expects. I've put in explicit messages in this version that request the creation of any missing directories, and the tar file should contain all the required directories anyway. I'm uploading it to my new FTP area: ftp://pipeline.ucsd.edu/dsf/cygwin32 It was built on a windows 95 system, and it seems to work under NT as well. It assumes that cygwin32 was installed in /Cygnus/B19, and you should unpack the tar.gz file in the root directory. I've also installed this version of RPM on an NT system that didn't have cygwin32 installed and it seemed to work, though I didn't actually install any RPMS there. If you want to do this you'll at least need to copy the following files: /Cygnus/B19/H-i386-cygwin32/bin/rpm.exe /Cygnus/B19/H-i386-cygwin32/bin/cygwinb19.dll /Cygnus/B19/lib/rpmrc /bin/sh.exe and you'll need to create these directories: /Cygnus/B19/src/redhat/RPMS/cygwin32 /Cygnus/B19/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch /Cygnus/B19/src/redhat/SRPMS /Cygnus/B19/src/redhat/SOURCES /Cygnus/B19/src/redhat/BUILD /Cygnus/B19/src/redhat/SPECS /var/tmp After that you're pretty much on your own - many rpms require lots of unix infra-structure. But let me know what happens in any case. -- David Fox http://www.cat.nyu.edu/fox xoF divaD UCSD HCI Lab dsfox AT cogsci DOT ucsd DOT edu baL ICH DSCU - 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".