next net release preliminary info

[Earnie Boyd]

--- J Shane Culpepper <pepper@netscape.com> wrote:
> I would suggest using rpm.  Its been ported to cygwin and a great tool for
> modular installation.  Write an installer based on the rpm development libs
> which can query for available packages much like redhat does.  You could also
> leverage from  the up2date redhat modules written in perl and python (i
> believe) for redhat distributions.  Maybe this is too much work but it would
> be a great distribution scheme.  That way you can always get the latest
> greatest modules for install.  I'm a proud owner of the official 1.0 CD but
> I'd love to be able to get certain things updated without having to always
> build the modules I want.
> 
> -Shane

You know, I just hate for someone else to decide where the package is supposed
to go for me.  I much prefer the tarball method with a minimal directory, I.E.,
bin, man, info, share, etc.

Then if I want to install an update of bash from bash-2.03 to bash-2.04.1 then
I can:

mkdir /install/bash-2.04.1
cd /install/bash-2.04.1
tar -zxvr bash-2.04.1-CygwinInstall.tar.gz

and endup with /install/bash-2.04.1/bin and /install/bash-2.04.1/info

Earnie.


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