On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 02:04:11PM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote: >Technically, nothing prevents you from shipping a Cygwin package (which is >just a .tar.bz2) that contains only the Cygwin binary RPM and the >postinstall script that invokes "rpm" to unpack that binary RPM (as long >as that package also "requires:" the "rpm" package). You'll also need to >build a manifest of all extracted files and have a preremove script that >cleans those up. See the gcc-mingw-core package for an example of a >similar approach.
Nothing would stop anyone from using rpm to build a package and then using "rpm2tar" to convert the rpm to a .tar.bz2 file either. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
