Please search the mailing list archives (cygwin and cygwin-apps) where the RPM issue has been ENDLESSLY discussed. You will discover, among other things, that we have repeatedly said "somebody needs to port/maintain/contribute the package" and "(ditto) db".
Then we ask "Do you want to volunteer?" Then we get silence. --Chuck Jean-Michel POURE wrote: > Le Mercredi 9 Janvier 2002 17:08, vous avez écrit : > >>Jean-Michel, >>On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 09:12:22AM +0100, Jean-Michel POURE wrote: >>See the following for my 4.0.2 experiences and patch: >>http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-07/msg00949.html >>Jason >> > > Dear Jason, > > Are there technical problems for not including RPM in the standard Cygwin > packages? Again, I will not be using Cygwin for Cygwin installation itself. > But it will be of great help for other projects, including mine. > > This would be so fine to just type rpm --rebuild package_name.src.rpm to > compile under Cygwin. Or rpm -ba spec_name to generate packages after > modifying the specs. > > Best regards, > Jean-Michel POURE > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
