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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 10:38:06 -0500
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From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: RPM 4 under cygwin
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At 08:54 AM 12/19/2001, Jean-Michel POURE wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>I am new to Cygwin and would like to know if someone is porting RPM 4 to 
>Cygwin. There are two reasons for this question:
>
>1) PHP library and application installer
>I am developping a PHP library installer based on RPM. Presently, if no RPM 
>solution is available under Cygwin, my installer will only work under Linux.


There have been ports of RPM 3 previously reported to this list.  See the
email archives or perhaps the port web page for more information.  I don't
recall seeing anyone reportedly working on RPM 4.


>2) Cygwin packages
>Could someone explain me what are the benefits of Cygwin packages over RPM. 
>Do Cygwin packages test dependencies and validate signatures? When a stable 
>version of KDE 2 is running under Cygwin, will you be able to maintain all 
>needed dependencies?


setup.exe recently added the ability to track dependencies between 
packages, though dependencies on certain versions of other packages is
still to come.



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