From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: RPM 4.11.1-1 fails on Cygwin 1.7.27-1 and -2
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 06:10:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140115061011.GA4258@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG9p0OSxsGvzmKoksj-06sZaX3XJycTB_HWG7uoavSnB7EtgPw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 12:38:18AM -0500, Lord Laraby wrote:
>So, does cygwin now support installing software via Redhat Package
>Manager?
No, of course not.
>Or is this RPM just a cross install tool just used for cygwin on linux
>boxen?
We've had an rpm binary in the distribution for probably 10 years or
so. This is nothing new. Use it as you will but it is not going to
be a replacement for Cygwin's crude package manager any time soon.
>I tried to build RPM many long moons ago when cygwin was young, but
>other than very simple src packages, most everything failed to
>configure or build. Have these issues been worked out? I dropped it
>off my radar after too many sleepless nights...
Obviously if there is a new version of rpm in the build that means that
it possible to build it...
cgf
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-15 6:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-12 0:52 Ken
2014-01-15 4:37 ` Ken
2014-01-15 5:38 ` Lord Laraby
2014-01-15 6:10 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2014-01-15 6:16 ` Marco Atzeri
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