On 2008-07-22, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: > Gary Johnson wrote: > > > On 2008-07-18, r wrote: > > >> I'm new about cygwin, but I use from a lot SuSE and OpenSuSE > >> can I install packages rpm from linux distributions on cygwin ? > > > > No. First off, Cygwin doesn't use Red Hat's package manager, it > > uses its own package manager, setup.exe. Secondly, binaries built > > for Linux will not run under Cygwin--the binary interfaces to the > > operating system are totally different. > > Er, what's the purpose, then, of 'rpm.exe' that can be installed > with 'setup.exe'?
I don't know. It isn't to install Linux binaries on Cygwin, though. > If "you" had a Cygwin-related/-dependent package, that > "you" wished to distribute to a group of users (say, >> 25), > > What utility would you use to install this package? > > The package would consist mostly of scripts -- bash, gawk, perl; > quite a few soft links, and some man pages, some documentation in > HTML format. > > Would you use?: > > * Make? > * Custom perl script? > * Custom bash script? > * Custom setup.ini & setup.exe? > * Or what? I would probably use make and put everything in a tar file, because that's what I know how to use. If I wanted the installer to handle package dependencies, too, then I'd take the time to learn how to build a Cygwin package. It would depend a lot on the users and how "turn key" the package had to be. Regards, Gary -- 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/