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Re: Intent to package: rpm-4.1


On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 04:15:09PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 08:37:39PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
> >Dario Alcocer wrote:
> >> Based on some of the recent work of Yann Crausaz[1] and Max Bowsher[2],
> >> and inspired by a recent comment[3] from Chuck Wilson, I've decided to
> >> begin once again a project[4] I had proposed nearly two years ago[5]. My
> >> immediate plan is to start with Yann's and Max's work and deliver an RPM
> >> package in the next few days that can be installed by setup.exe; this
> >> also means I'm volunteering to be the maintainer (I hope this is OK with
> >> Yann and Max.)
> >
> >No objections here.
> 
> This gets my vote too.  I'm anxious to see this in cygwin.  I keep getting
> asked about this.

Thumb up from me.  I'm just curious how often we'll see reports 
complaining about Cygwin RPM refusing to unpack Linux binary RPMs :-)

Corinna

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