Hi all I've become interested in making a Cygwin distribution based on RPM. My main reasons for doing this: (1) I come from a RHEL/OEL/Fedora background, so I'd rather use yum than setup.exe (2) I like the fact that rpm has a proper database of which file owns which package, so I can do things like rpm -qf $(which foo), and quickly find out where foo comes from. I don't see any so-obvious way of doing that with setup.exe
Please find attached cyg2rpm.pl, which converts Cygwin binary packages into RPMs. Of course, this is just a hacky first attempt, but it shows where I'm going. Example of usage: $ ./cyg2rpm.pl http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/cygwin/ work Cheers Simon
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