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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:30:24 -0400
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Subject: Re: Can RPM packages be installed into Cygwin?
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
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On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 2:21 PM, De-Jian Zhao wrote:
>
> Thank you, Christopher. Is there a way to export the package info or lib
> info of setup.exe to rpm? If they can share information, the problem will be
> easily solved.
>

You can always read the source code to determine how to read the
package info of setup.exe.

> Besides, I tried --nodeps option with src.rpm. It requires root privilege
> (see below). However, "sudo rpm" and "su root" both failed to work. Any way
> to fix it? Does Cygwin has a root user?

It would be the Windows administrator user.  You probably need to
execute mkpasswd.  See http://cygwin.com/faq/ and search for passwd on
the page.

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