Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2008-07-18, r wrote:
>> I'm new about cygwin, but I use from a lot SuSE and OpenSuSE >> can I install packages rpm from linux distributions on cygwin ? > No. First off, Cygwin doesn't use Red Hat's package manager, it > uses its own package manager, setup.exe. Secondly, binaries built > for Linux will not run under Cygwin--the binary interfaces to the > operating system are totally different. Er, what's the purpose, then, of 'rpm.exe' that can be installed with 'setup.exe'? If "you" had a Cygwin-related/-dependent package, that "you" wished to distribute to a group of users (say, >> 25), What utility would you use to install this package? The package would consist mostly of scripts -- bash, gawk, perl; quite a few soft links, and some man pages, some documentation in HTML format. Would you use?: * Make? * Custom perl script? * Custom bash script? * Custom setup.ini & setup.exe? * Or what? Thanks, Lee Lee Rothstein -- 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/
