From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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
Message-id: <200012262312.SAA24914@envy.delorie.com>
References: <20001226225803.23291.qmail@softhome.net>
X-SW-Source: 2000-12/msg01124.html

> 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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