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Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 05:57:43 -0800 (PST)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Bogus hostname forcing in RedHat source RPMS
To: "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, s_c_biggs@bigfoot.com
Cc: cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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--- "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu> wrote:
> "Stephen C. Biggs" wrote:
> > 
> > This is a real shame, if there is no way to override the bogus
> > hostname, because, with my port for RPM 4.0, cygwin users can
> > rebuild and use almost all of the nifty Linux tools that redhat has.
> 
> I hate to burst your bubble, but cygwin is not linux.  The only packages
> for which your statement is true, are those that have already been
> ported to work with cygwin, or you get lucky (see below).  It just ain't
> as simple as:
> 

I would like to also add that discussions of RPM is OT for this list.

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com

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