From: michael@weiser.saale-net.de (Michael Weiser) Subject: Re: Yet another GNU-Win32 website... 11 Aug 1998 04:07:35 -0700 Message-ID: <35d85c47.4809685.cygnus.gnu-win32@mail> References: <19980809024041.23659.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jeff Sturm Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Hi Jeff, You wrote: >What do we need to adopt RPM? Has anyone ported the rpm utilities yet? > >More importantly, before RPM (or any package installer) will succeed on >cygwin32 there should be some sort of filesystem standard, like the >FSSTD for Linux. Does everybody have a /usr directory? Howabout /var? >The installer doesn't create these, so for now they are optional... Okay, any interest in writing a first draft and posting it for discussion? :) bye Michael - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".