Re: Intent to package: rpm-4.1

[Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> While it would be nice in principle to get rpm working in Cygwin, it
> wouldn't be particularly useful unless it shares the installed database
> with setup.exe...  If it does, then its features, such as finding a
> package containing a particular file, would be really great additions to
> the repertoire of command-line tools (even if it only read the database,
> i.e. installs were disabled).  Just my 2c.
> IOW, if it shares the database with setup, it gets my vote.

First things first, Igor.  First we simply need a nice cygwin port. 
Then we need (tools? library?) to support bi-directional data sharing 
between /var/lib/rpm/ and /etc/setup/.  Then we need a mingw port of 
librpm and the above tools/library.  Then setup can link against these 
two libraries, and ...

Did you want to wait until ALL of the above was complete, before 
allowing an rpm package into cygwin?  If so, then you're simply 
dreaming, and your conditional approval is really just a disguised veto.

Besides, a sequence similar to the above is ALSO necessary for dpkg 
support in setup -- yet that didn't stop us from adding a stand-alone 
port of dpkg & friends to the distro.

FWIW, this gets my vote too -- as proposed.  We'll probably need another 
go-round of this once Dario gets the packages up for inspection.

--Chuck