Parallel downloading of Cygwin packages
Chris Cormie
cjcormie@gmail.com
Mon Nov 2 03:25:00 GMT 2009
> There are barriers to implementing rpm in Cygwin, the most frequently
> mentioned being the fact that a cygwin process can't easily replace
> cygwin1.dll or any other running executables.
If the in-Cygwin package manager can't update core Cygwin, that's not a
deal breaker IMO: there is a fair bit of useful app package management
that can be done without changing the core.
As for running executables -- well, perhaps this is more of my ignorance
:) but couldn't a well behaved package close down running services in
the preremove script? (In the case the package was being upgraded.)
Best Regards,
Chris
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