On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 12:42:31AM +0100, Sjors Gielen wrote: > Christopher Faylor schreef: >>> setup.exe and cygcheck are very nice but was wondering if the idea of >>> using >>> yum and rpm was ever tossed around? >> Yes, it has been discussed many times. There are big barriers to >> getting these working, mainly due to problems installing already-running >> programs. >> cgf > > Hey Christopher, > > I've succesfully ported dpkg. In a few weeks time, I'll start working on my > Debian Cygwin project again, I'm currently busy with other things - but > maybe you could take a look at my dpkg changes and see if you can make a > Cygwin-dpkg which is compatible with cygcheck and setup.exe. Dpkg is very > easy to use, as is apt-get which I was busy porting before I stopped > temporarily.
Sorry but I don't see us moving to dpkg. If we were going to use anything it would probably be rpm. Cygwin is owned by Red Hat and hosted on a Red Hat sponsored system after all. > (Since 1.7 already fixes the problem of installing running programs, Color me dubious. How did you solve the problem of installing cygwin over a running version of cygwin? 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/
