Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20011219103326.0166d180@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 10:38:06 -0500 To: jm DOT poure AT freesurf DOT fr, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: RPM 4 under cygwin In-Reply-To: <200112191354.fBJDsSx08146@www1.translationforge> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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. Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/