Hi Bob, and thanks to all for your answers.
> I'm working on porting rpm to cygwin. With the ultimate goal of getting > apt4rpm ported, so you can use all the familiar apt-get operations. Well , dpkg is already ported and included in the main distrib. Why working on RPM ? While dreaming on a complete apt powered cygwin distribution, i'm searching for a cygwin packages installer. I now think that it doesn't exists and will be an easy perl hack ... I'm not a C++ expert but the setup does that : - download http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/mirrors.lst as mirror list - download [selected_mirror]/setup.bz2 as packages list - download packages found in setup.bz2 and selected - unbzip it under / - tar tjf $package_file | gzip >/etc/setup/${package_name}.lst.gz - update the line $package_name $package_name 0 in the /etc/setup/installed.db ( i don't understand does the 0 mean ) - run /etc/postinstall/package.sh - mv /etc/postinstall/package.sh /etc/postinstall/package.sh.done is it completed ? Regards, Marc PS : I'm no longuer member of the list (too much trafic). Please insert my personnal email adress in reply. -- 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/
