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We have just had this discussion a week ago. You should probably go back and review the thread in the cygwin-apps archives. The subject was "setup wishes -- any volunteers". cgf On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 10:55:43AM +0700, Anon Sricharoenchai wrote: > >> The key things that would need to be done first are: >> >> 1. Port the RPM library to MinGW (setup isn't a cygwin app). > >Why don't make setup a cygwin app ? >Anyway, even though setup isn't a cygwin app, it can make call to rpm.exe >(which is a cygwin app) to install RPMs. > >> >> 2. Teach setup to at least extract the files from the RPM (i.e. treat >> the RPM as a fancy tar.gz file). Use the library from #1 for this. >> >> That will at least let setup install RPMs, even if it doesn't keep an >> RPM database. The next steps would be to do the RPM database and >> such, so that the cygwin-based RPM tools can interact nicely with what >> setup installs.
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