RPM installer (was Re: SETUP WIZARD FOR CYGWIN?XFREE86)

Thu Jul 26 08:43:00 GMT 2001

>>>>> "Rue" == Rue SATOH <rsato@ccs.co.jp> writes:

 Rue> Hello.
 Rue> Project HeavyMoon was moved to http://www.sixnine.net/cygwin/ ,
 Rue> but I don't announced yet.
Thanks for the information, I'll check out the new site soon.
 Rue> I had built db-3.1.17 with DLLize patch.
 Rue> If you want, please get from Project HeavyMoon.
 Rue> My rpm port use some DLL(cygbz, cygdb, cygz) now.
Great, I'll check out the port. Do you have a src.rpm for RPM? I'd
be interested in reviewing the *.patch files and the .spec file too.
 Rue> And I had made tarball that include minimum environment and tools.
 Rue> o ash
 Rue> o mkgroup
 Rue> o mkpasswd
 Rue> o mount
 Rue> o umount 
 Rue> o rpm 
 Rue> o rpm2cpio
 Rue> o cygbz21.0.dll
 Rue> o cygdb3.dll
 Rue> o cygwin1.dll
 Rue> o cygz.dll
 Rue> I think that we shall use this sequence to install.
 Rue> I usually use this sequence for build to my cygwin environment that
 Rue> all packages are managemented by rpm(Now, I don't use packages that
 Rue> provided by cygwin.com).
 Rue> 1. extract minimum environment and tools(Ex. instkit.tar.gz).
 Rue> 2. mount / directory.
 Rue> 3. rpm --initdb
 Rue> 4. mkpasswd & mkgroup(optional)
Actually, this could be done by a Cygwin-specific RPM package, one
that contains a post-install script that would create the /etc/passwd
and /etc/group files.
 Rue> 5. install some rpm packages
 Rue> o termcap(DLLized)
 Rue> o zlib(DLLized)
 Rue> o ncurses(DLLized)
 Rue> o ash
 Rue> o info
 Rue> o grep
 Rue> o bash
 Rue> o bzip2(including DLLized bzip2 library)
 Rue> o db(DLLized)
 Rue> o popt
 Rue> o file
 Rue> o rpm
 Rue> Why we use this sequence? Because rpm.exe depend cygz.dll,
 Rue> cygbz21.0.dll and cygdb3.dll. rpm.exe use file.exe, sh.exe
 Rue> and some tools too...
Yes, installation order does matter, but this is the same issue you
run into with the Linux version of RPM, so we're not really any worse
off.
-- 
Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc.
alcocer@helixdigital.com -- http://www.helixdigital.com
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