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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 11:10:13 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, Jason Tishler <jason AT tishler DOT net>
Subject: Re: RPM installer needed for my PHP project
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Please search the mailing list archives (cygwin and cygwin-apps) where 
the RPM issue has been ENDLESSLY discussed.  You will discover, among 
other things, that we have repeatedly said "somebody needs to 
port/maintain/contribute the package" and "(ditto) db".

Then we ask "Do you want to volunteer?"

Then we get silence.

--Chuck

Jean-Michel POURE wrote:

> Le Mercredi 9 Janvier 2002 17:08, vous avez écrit :
> 
>>Jean-Michel,
>>On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 09:12:22AM +0100, Jean-Michel POURE wrote:
>>See the following for my 4.0.2 experiences and patch:
>>http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-07/msg00949.html
>>Jason
>>
> 
> Dear Jason,
> 
> Are there technical problems for not including RPM in the standard Cygwin 
> packages? Again, I will not be using Cygwin for Cygwin installation itself. 
> But it will be of great help for other projects, including mine.
> 
> This would be so fine to just type rpm --rebuild package_name.src.rpm to 
> compile under Cygwin. Or rpm -ba spec_name to generate packages after 
> modifying the specs.
> 
> Best regards,
> Jean-Michel POURE
> 
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