SJ Kissane wrote:
Hi all
I've become interested in making a Cygwin distribution based on RPM.
My main reasons for doing this:
(1) I come from a RHEL/OEL/Fedora background, so I'd rather use yum
than setup.exe
(2) I like the fact that rpm has a proper database of which file owns
which package, so I can
do things like rpm -qf $(which foo), and quickly find out where foo comes from.
I don't see any so-obvious way of doing that with setup.exe
You don't do that with 'setup.exe'. You do it with 'cygcheck -f'.
Please find attached cyg2rpm.pl, which converts Cygwin binary packages
into RPMs.
Of course, this is just a hacky first attempt, but it shows where I'm going.
Example of usage:
$ ./cyg2rpm.pl http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/cygwin/ work
Interesting. Discussions in the past about using RPM packaging have
always gotten stymied by the "chicken or the egg" problem of a 'rpm'
port. The port that's easiest and fits best is one based on Cygwin.
But one can't use such a port to install a new cygwin1.dll. Do you
have plans to address this area?
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A: Yes.
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