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Re: Intent to package: rpm-4.1


Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 04:15:09PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 08:37:39PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
>>> Dario Alcocer wrote:
>>>> Based on some of the recent work of Yann Crausaz[1] and Max Bowsher[2],
>>>> and inspired by a recent comment[3] from Chuck Wilson, I've decided to
>>>> begin once again a project[4] I had proposed nearly two years ago[5].
My
>>>> immediate plan is to start with Yann's and Max's work and deliver an
RPM
>>>> package in the next few days that can be installed by setup.exe; this
>>>> also means I'm volunteering to be the maintainer (I hope this is OK
with
>>>> Yann and Max.)
>>>
>>> No objections here.
>>
>> This gets my vote too.  I'm anxious to see this in cygwin.  I keep
getting
>> asked about this.
>
> Thumb up from me.  I'm just curious how often we'll see reports
> complaining about Cygwin RPM refusing to unpack Linux binary RPMs :-)

Hmm, maybe we should modify the "architecture mismatch" message to be
insulting :-)


Anyway, +1 for the package from me.


Max.


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