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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: RPM 4 under cygwin
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 08:44:20 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>

> Since Larry didn't touch this, I'll respond.  Cygwin packages can be
> unpacked/interpreted/understood by a NON cygwin program (setup.exe is
a
> native windows app).  ALL ports of RPM that I have seen require cygwin
> -- which means they cannot easily be used to install cygwin itself on
a
> virgin system.  This is a serious drawback.

And cannot replace in-use files. AFAIK only my alpha experiment on that
is around for the cygwin/rpm/deb world.

> Signature validation is a good idea(*) -- Robert, can you add that to
> the wishlist?
>
> (*) I'm thinking more in terms the md5 file verification, not
> necessarily maintainer-signature PGP verification...

I can't figure out why it's not there already. I could have sworn...

Rob


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