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From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.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 06:16:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52D62799.2000807@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG9p0OSxsGvzmKoksj-06sZaX3XJycTB_HWG7uoavSnB7EtgPw@mail.gmail.com>



On 15/01/2014 06:38, Lord Laraby wrote:
> So, does cygwin now support installing software via Redhat Package
> Manager?

No. That I am aware of

> Or is this RPM just a cross install tool just used for cygwin
> on linux boxen?

something like that

> 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...
>
> LL
>
Marco

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-15  6:16 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
2014-01-15  6:16     ` Marco Atzeri [this message]

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