On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 12:38:18AM -0500, Lord Laraby wrote: >So, does cygwin now support installing software via Redhat Package >Manager?
No, of course not. >Or is this RPM just a cross install tool just used for cygwin on linux >boxen? We've had an rpm binary in the distribution for probably 10 years or so. This is nothing new. Use it as you will but it is not going to be a replacement for Cygwin's crude package manager any time soon. >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... Obviously if there is a new version of rpm in the build that means that it possible to build it... cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
