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 Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 15:00:41 +0100 Message-ID: <3E804EAB0001C78B@mss4n.bluewin.ch> From: "Yann Crausaz" Subject: rpm 4 cygwin To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hello, I'm afraid I've got to make a point clearer : porting RPM-4.1 to Cygwin wasn't thought to install *NIX binaries under MS-Windows ! I will modify the source of the ported version of RPM to prevent installing binaries that were not built for MS-Windows, so there won't be any confusion anymore. The aim of that port isn't really to avoid the use of setup.exe, but rather, as I've already said, to allow *NIX users not to be lost under Cygwin ! Whatsmore, the number of rpm archives for the cygwin platform that are available isn't that big : 2 archives... They were just tests to check that building/installing/checking/removing archives worked well. In fact, I hope that there will be contributions, to increase this number ;-) As you can imagine, building an rpm under Cygwin is done quite in the same than under Linux (for example). Greets -- 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/