Re: RPM for Cygwin32 B19

Re: RPM for Cygwin32 B19

[David Fox]

Marcus Brown <Brown@sw.mke.etn.com> writes:

> Hi, 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Fox [ mailto:fox@cat.nyu.edu ]
> Sent: Sunday, July 12, 1998 7:40 AM
> To: Marcus Brown
> Subject: Re: RPM for Cygwin32 B19
> 
> You may be the first person besides myself who has installed and tried
> to use this.  What release number of RPM did you retrieve?  What
> arguments did you give to RPM?  What happens if you add "-v -v -v" to
> the flags?
> -- 
> 
> The rpm release that I retrieved was 2.4.109 and I followed the simple
> instructions (also posted in the same spot) which said to untar the
> package from the root directory.  Everything extracted without incident,
> and the package I retrieved also contained an updated cygwinb19.dll.
> RPM seems to be complaining about its startup file rpmrc, and when I
> checked the man page for rpm it showed rpmrc to be contained in the /etc
> and /lib directories.  I have a binary mount going to /etc from
> C:\Cygnus\B19\H-i386-cygwin32\etc and I have a copy of rpmrc in each
> (/etc and /lib).
> 
> Also, when executing rpm, I recieve the error even when running the
> program with no arguments.  It does the same when executing it with "-v
> -v -v" or any arbitrary argument.  Does rpm usually say "Re-execing
> rpm"?

The "Re-execing rpm" message is my addition, it has to modify its
environment and re-start itself if the CYGWIN32=binmode flag isn't
set.  It is normal.  I will remove the message in the next release.

> Marcus
> 
> Note:  The line that rpm referred to (rpmrc:36) is as follows:
> 
> arch_canon:	i986:	i986	1
> 
> I opened this file once before in NT's brain dead edit.exe, which does
> not preserve tabs, could this have something to do with it?

When I run RPM without arguments I get a long help message.  I'm not
sure what the problem might be.  I'll have to ponder it further.

If this has worked or failed for anyone else I'd be interested in
hearing about it.
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David Fox	   http://www.cat.nyu.edu/fox		xoF divaD
NYU Media Research Lab   fox@cat.nyu.edu   baL hcraeseR aideM UYN
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RE: RPM for Cygwin32 B19

[Marcus Brown]

Hi, 

-----Original Message-----
From: David Fox [ mailto:fox@cat.nyu.edu ]
Sent: Sunday, July 12, 1998 7:40 AM
To: Marcus Brown
Subject: Re: RPM for Cygwin32 B19

You may be the first person besides myself who has installed and tried
to use this.  What release number of RPM did you retrieve?  What
arguments did you give to RPM?  What happens if you add "-v -v -v" to
the flags?
-- 

The rpm release that I retrieved was 2.4.109 and I followed the simple
instructions (also posted in the same spot) which said to untar the
package from the root directory.  Everything extracted without incident,
and the package I retrieved also contained an updated cygwinb19.dll.
RPM seems to be complaining about its startup file rpmrc, and when I
checked the man page for rpm it showed rpmrc to be contained in the /etc
and /lib directories.  I have a binary mount going to /etc from
C:\Cygnus\B19\H-i386-cygwin32\etc and I have a copy of rpmrc in each
(/etc and /lib).

Also, when executing rpm, I recieve the error even when running the
program with no arguments.  It does the same when executing it with "-v
-v -v" or any arbitrary argument.  Does rpm usually say "Re-execing
rpm"?


Marcus

Note:  The line that rpm referred to (rpmrc:36) is as follows:

arch_canon:	i986:	i986	1

I opened this file once before in NT's brain dead edit.exe, which does
not preserve tabs, could this have something to do with it?
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Re: RPM for Cygwin32 B19

[David Fox]

Marcus Brown <Brown@sw.mke.etn.com> writes:

> Also, when executing rpm, I recieve the error even when running the
> program with no arguments.  It does the same when executing it with "-v
> -v -v" or any arbitrary argument.  Does rpm usually say "Re-execing
> rpm"?
> 
> 
> Marcus
> 
> Note:  The line that rpm referred to (rpmrc:36) is as follows:
> 
> arch_canon:	i986:	i986	1
> 
> I opened this file once before in NT's brain dead edit.exe, which does
> not preserve tabs, could this have something to do with it?

You might see this error if you edited your rpmrc and saved it in
so-called ``ASCII mode'', with a control-M before every control-J.
This is the norm in the MS-DOS world.  Thanks to anonymous for
pointing out this possibility.
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David Fox	   http://www.cat.nyu.edu/fox		xoF divaD
NYU Media Research Lab   fox@cat.nyu.edu   baL hcraeseR aideM UYN
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RPM for Cygwin32 B19

[Marcus Brown]

Hi,

I recently retrieved the rpm-2.4.109 cygwin port from
ftp.cs.nyu/pub/local/fox/cygwin32 and "installed" on my machine.
However, when I attempt to run rpm this is what I get:

Re-execing rpm
 (/Cygnus/B19/lib/rpmrc:36)

I currently have Cygwin B19 (of course :) and mingw32 installed with all
shell variables pointing to mingw32.  Has anyone else successfully setup
rpm for B19?
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