Intent to package: rpm-4.1
Charles Wilson
cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
Mon Apr 28 23:49:00 GMT 2003
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> While it would be nice in principle to get rpm working in Cygwin, it
> wouldn't be particularly useful unless it shares the installed database
> with setup.exe... If it does, then its features, such as finding a
> package containing a particular file, would be really great additions to
> the repertoire of command-line tools (even if it only read the database,
> i.e. installs were disabled). Just my 2c.
> IOW, if it shares the database with setup, it gets my vote.
First things first, Igor. First we simply need a nice cygwin port.
Then we need (tools? library?) to support bi-directional data sharing
between /var/lib/rpm/ and /etc/setup/. Then we need a mingw port of
librpm and the above tools/library. Then setup can link against these
two libraries, and ...
Did you want to wait until ALL of the above was complete, before
allowing an rpm package into cygwin? If so, then you're simply
dreaming, and your conditional approval is really just a disguised veto.
Besides, a sequence similar to the above is ALSO necessary for dpkg
support in setup -- yet that didn't stop us from adding a stand-alone
port of dpkg & friends to the distro.
FWIW, this gets my vote too -- as proposed. We'll probably need another
go-round of this once Dario gets the packages up for inspection.
--Chuck
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