From: lhall@rfk.com (Larry Hall) Subject: Re: CD-based distribution (was Another website....) 16 Aug 1998 06:48:13 -0700 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980814140052.009d5100.cygnus.gnu-win32@pop.ma.ultranet.com> References: lhall@rfk.com (Larry Hall) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Robert Read , Geoffrey Noer Cc: Marcus Brown , Robert.Cross@scottish-newcastle.co.uk, gnu-win32@cygnus.com At 02:48 PM 8/13/98 -0700, Robert Read wrote: > >That is a good point; it does make sense for the install process to be >windows aware because, after all, this is windows software. A >product like that might also help developers building stand alone >applications with cygwin to distribute them easier. Does anyone know if >it would be difficult to extend rpm with windows specific features like >registry settings? > >robert > Its been a while since I looked at rpm but my recollection is that it allows you to include pre and/or post install scripts to do "whatever". If at all possible, I think that any windows specific actions that need to happen on the install should be a script run by rpm to do the registry stuff, etc. This way, one would create Cygwin32-specific packages that know how to install themselves under Cygwin32 and Windows but rpm doesn't have to know anything specific about Windows or Cygwin32 (or HP-UX, Sun Solaris, etc. for that matter...) Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (781) 239-1053 8 Grove Street (781) 239-1655 - FAX Wellesley, MA 02482-7797 http://www.rfk.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".