This is the mail archive of the cygwin mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: Can RPM packages be installed into Cygwin?


On 2012-4-18 22:03, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 09:13:20PM +0800, De-Jian Zhao wrote:
On 2012-4-17 13:58, Linda Walsh wrote:
[snip]
Thank you, Linda.  When I saw the error message after installing some
packages to satisfy the dependencies, I was wondering why the rpm
package still complained about the already installed packages.  I was
not aware that cygwin and rpm were not sharing the 'database'.  Thank
you for making it clear to me.I will try the src.rpm when I am free.
So with all of the back and forth about this, you never realized that
Cygwin's setup.exe doesn't use RPM?  Wow.  Wasn't the fact that there
are no .rpm files in the distribution a big enough clue?

cgf

I never expect setup.exe will use rpm packages. There is a rpm command in Cygwin. I just thought it could be used to install a rpm package.


The rpm package complained about dependencies during installation. I did think that the dependency could be solved by installing proper packages through setup.exe. But after installing some libraries through setup.exe, the rpm package still complained the same as before. It seemed that the rpm package did not see the installed libraries at all.

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]