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Subject: Re: Cygwin package management
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From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke AT gnu DOT org>
Organization: Jan at Appel
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:38:18 +0100
In-Reply-To: <41D022C0.70508@luc.ac.be> (Michel Van den Bergh's message of "Mon, 27 Dec 2004 15:57:04 +0100")
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Michel Van den Bergh writes:

> I am sorry for being ignorant but setup.exe is a GUI program isn't it?
> I was looking for a simple command line tool like rpm that is
> executable from a script.

Cygwin package management is quite simple, it's just setup.ini with
dependencies pointing to tarballs, and an installed file database. I
hacked a simple python script to query isnstalled packages and handle
dependencies

    http://lilypond.org/~janneke/software/cyg-apt

Jan.

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