Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin package management References: <200412271301.iBRD1kl10849@esds.vss.fsi.com> <41D01F3F.40801@luc.ac.be> <41D022C0.70508@luc.ac.be> From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen Organization: Jan at Appel Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:38:18 +0100 In-Reply-To: <41D022C0.70508@luc.ac.be> (Michel Van den Bergh's message of "Mon, 27 Dec 2004 15:57:04 +0100") Message-ID: <87oegfpx91.fsf@peder.flower> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes Michel Van den Bergh writes: > I am sorry for being ignorant but setup.exe is a GUI program isn't it? > I was looking for a simple command line tool like rpm that is > executable from a script. Cygwin package management is quite simple, it's just setup.ini with dependencies pointing to tarballs, and an installed file database. I hacked a simple python script to query isnstalled packages and handle dependencies http://lilypond.org/~janneke/software/cyg-apt Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/