Max Bowsher wrote: > > > I'm not quite sure rpm really is desirable for the Cygwin dist, unless it > > was decided to transition to rpm packages exclusively once setup was > > suitably adapted. > > Well, there are grand designs eventually to generalize setup so that it > can accept tar.bz2 (or .cyg?) packages, as well as linking to (a windows > native version of...) librpm and libdeb to provide rpm and deb support. > There are, of course, MAJOR difficulties with this, which have yet to > be addressed (like keeping the setup installed.db, rpm's db, and deb's > "db" all in sync. Bringing setup's native dependency-resolution logic > up to the level provided by deb and to a lesser extent rpm. > Commandline/scripting support. etc etc) > > But, rpm has been around for years on cygwin without the sky falling. I > used it back when I provided perl-for-cygwin, as a means of keeping > track of binary dists of perl modules. I'm sure there are other, > similiarly limited uses that won't cause armageddon.
yes, an example are the original kde3 i18n rpm language packages which are directly usable for kde3/cygwin. Using this rpm packages avoids the needs for repackaging of about 50 packages. Ralf -- 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/
