From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Fox To: GNU Win 32 Subject: Re: Any plans on implementing chroot() in b19? Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 05:34:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <34148E48.332A2F6E@prairienet.org> X-SW-Source: 1997-09/msg00257.html Gilligan 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. -- David Fox http://www.cat.nyu.edu/fox xoF divaD NYU Media Research Lab fox@cat.nyu.edu baL hcraeseR aideM UYN - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".