RE: RPM in Cygwin environment?

["Chris Benenati" <cbenenax yahoo com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpm-list-admin@redhat.com [mailto:rpm-list-admin@redhat.com]On
> Behalf Of Aaron Gaudio
> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 5:35 AM
> To: rpm-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: RPM in Cygwin environment?
>
>
> 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?

That's what I needed to know (and I had to create the directories /var/lib/
and /var/lib/rpm/ by hand).  Thanks.