RPM-4.1 port to cygwin available

Thu Mar 27 20:20:00 GMT 2003

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 10:54:36AM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
>On 2003年3月26日, Shankar Unni wrote:
>> Yann Crausaz wrote:
>> > The version of setup.exe I propose must be a bit old, isn't it ? If there's
>> > a real interest, I'm OK to care about the latest version, but will poeple
>> > really use RPM under Cygwin ? 
>> The real benefit to porting RPM or apt-get or whatever to Windows is as 
>> a possible replacement for the current installation system (if anyone 
>> considers RPM, and its associated GUIs, an improvement, that is).
>I can see it now:
>"I downloaded the abcdef RPM from my local LUG mirror and it didn't work - 
>why?"
>.. umm.. Linux executable?

I'm pretty sure that RPM won't let you do that by default.
cgf
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