And lo, upon Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 09:16:51PM -0700, Chris Benenati spaketh thusly:
> I read on http://rpm.org that a version of rpm was available for Cygwin
> (B20, at least). I followed the link and downloaded rpm.exe from
> ftp://ftp.blackcatlinux.com/pub/RPM-bin/cygwin-B20/
>
> I have Cygwin 1.3.12-2 installed on my Win2000 box. Tried to use the
> downloaded rpm.exe to load a couple of RPMs. Fails on every one I try with
> the message:
>
> failed to open /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
>
> error: cannot open (null)/var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
>
> Well, there isn't even a lib subdirectory on my /var, so I'm not surprised.
> I guess there's some additional installation required for RPM, but the FTP
> site offered only the single executable file.
>
> SO -- IS THERE A VERSION ANYWHERE OF RPM THAT CAN BE INSTALLED INTO CYGWIN?
>
> Thanks.
>
Did you try doing an 'rpm --initdb' first?
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