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On 15/01/2014 06:38, Lord Laraby wrote:
> So, does cygwin now support installing software via Redhat Package
> Manager?

No. That I am aware of

> Or is this RPM just a cross install tool just used for cygwin
> on linux boxen?

something like that

> I tried to build RPM many long moons ago when cygwin was young, but
> other than very simple src packages, most everything failed to
> configure or build. Have these issues been worked out? I dropped it
> off my radar after too many sleepless nights...
>
> LL
>
Marco

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