From: David Fox <fox@cat.nyu.edu>
To: GNU Win 32 <gnu-win32@cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: Any plans on implementing chroot() in b19?
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 05:34:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <y5avi05xui0.fsf@graphics.cat.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <34148E48.332A2F6E@prairienet.org>
Gilligan <kunglao@prairienet.org> writes:
> > Just out of interest, why are you wanting to use rpm on a Win32 system
> > anyway? Also, about your chroot() problem, can't you get around this
> > problem by using cpio and the rpm2cpio programs combined?
>
> Mainly, to have a way of managing packages (the "pm" in rpm :)), making it
> easier to install, remove, upgrade, etc packages.
I would also like to see RPM under Win32, unless there is some
superior alternative available under NT. Of course, for it to be
superior it would have to be cross platform and already available and
in wide use under Unix, which it isn't. So there you are.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-09-13 5:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-09-04 14:25 Gilligan
1997-09-07 10:35 ` Marty Leisner
1997-09-08 16:54 ` Gilligan
1997-09-08 4:23 ` David Murn
1997-09-08 16:54 ` Gilligan
1997-09-13 5:34 ` David Fox [this message]
1997-09-14 9:44 ` Paul Prescod
1997-09-14 11:22 ` Alex
1997-09-14 13:26 ` Gilligan
1997-09-15 6:34 ` Earnie Boyd
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