Now this is probably going to start a huge email wave. So I'll start by making some key points:
1) Setup does not support dpkg or rpm yet, so this package is -not- meant to interoperate with setup.exe. (*) 2) I'm not trying to 'race' Nicholas's rpm efforts. I don't think we should -ever- place cygwin maintainers in a position where they must have either dpkg or rpm on their home system in order to create packages. That's why I want setup to support *both* .rpm and .deb file formats. Conversely, I think maintainers should be able to have either or both dpkg and rpm available as tools to use when building packages. 3) In case there is any doubt: I am not trying to make the cygwin net distribution over in debian's image. If I wanted to do that, I would be contributing my time to the debian-w32 port effort. I'm simply trying to get my favourite packaging tool available for my use, and share it with others if they want it. Having said that, a few notes on the package: 4) It's not 100% ported and tested. For instance it may still try chmod(0,0). I've addressed most issues I think though. There is still optional extras that can be done, like making start-stop-daemon wrap cygrunsrv rather than disabling start-stop-daemon. 5) It's deliberately a single package rather than split out into -dev, -doc, bin and so on, because it's only aimed at developers. In point of fact (and strange as it may sound), I had to put extra effort in to make it a single tarball :}. Likewise the choice of category. Setup.hint: ==== category: Devel requires: perl cygwin libintl2 sdesc: "A package management system." ldesc: "The dpkg package management system. This is NOT integrated with setup.exe, and is packaged to allow the use of it's tools for cygwin package maintainers." ==== Tarballs: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/dpkg-1.10.4-1.tar.bz2 http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/dpkg-1.10.4-1-src.tar.bz2 Feedback welcomed, Rob (*) A helper to make dpkg useful to cygwin package maintainers. That's the point of this after all. #! /bin/bash # convert a deb file to a cygwin setup.exe tarball export PKG=`echo $1 | sed -e 's/_.*//'` echo package $PKG export VER=`echo $1 | sed -e 's/[^_]*_//' -e 's/_.*//'` echo version $VER export REL=1 echo cygwin release 1 export FULLPKG=${PKG}-${VER}-${REL} export bin_pkg_name=${FULLPKG}.tar.bz2 export bin_pkg=`pwd`/${bin_pkg_name} dpkg-deb -x $1 $PKG-$VER-temp && \ cd $PKG-$VER-temp && \ tar cvjf ${bin_pkg} * && echo ${bin_pkg} created.
