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From: DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com>
To: etoffi@softhome.net
Cc: cygwin@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: cygwin setup
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 15:12:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200012262312.SAA24914@envy.delorie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001226225803.23291.qmail@softhome.net>

> hopefully this doesnt turn out to be a silly question, but is the source
> for the setup utility available?

Yes.  Get the cygwin sources, and it's in src/winsup/cinstall.

> also, is there any interest to use (real) packages in cygwin?

There was, until we added .tar.gz support to setup :-)

Seriously, people have talked about RPM, but until someone decides to
actually *do* something, tarballs remain the standard "package" format
for Cygwin.

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  reply	other threads:[~2000-12-26 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-26 15:08 etoffi
2000-12-26 15:12 ` DJ Delorie [this message]
2000-12-26 15:31   ` etoffi
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-11-18 20:13 dubcek
2006-11-18 21:22 ` Tim Prince
2006-11-19  6:15 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2005-04-28 14:15 Kewley, J (John)
2005-04-28 14:36 ` Dave Korn
2005-04-28 14:38   ` Christopher Faylor
2005-04-28 15:11     ` Dave Korn
     [not found] ` <77673C9ECE12AB4791B5AC0A7BF40C8FE4963E@exchange02.fed.cclr c.ac.uk>
2005-04-29  1:45   ` Larry Hall
2001-11-11  8:26 Cygwin setup H.Merijn Brand
2001-11-11  8:26 ` Brian Keener
2001-11-11  8:26 ` cygwin setup Christopher Faylor
2001-10-19 11:08 building jed Gary Jones
2001-10-20  1:37 ` Cygwin Setup Carlos de Sousa
2000-11-22 18:41 cygwin setup McNulty Junior Bobby

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