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Re: packages


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



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