RPM on Windows

[Vladimir Mihai Pacuraru <vladimir pacuraru exaprotect com>]

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> Today's Topics:
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>    1. RPM on Windows (Dave Peterson)
>    2. RE: RPM on Windows (Jason Pyeron)
>    3. RE: RPM on Windows (Dave Peterson)
>    4. RE: RPM on Windows (Jason Pyeron)
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> Subject:
> RPM on Windows
> From:
> "Dave Peterson" <dave_peterson bigfix com>
> Date:
> Mon, 19 May 2008 09:54:45 -0700
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> Hi,
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> I was wondering if anyone has tried building the RPM library
> on Windows outside the Cygwin environment.  Is this possible?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave

When I first had to build RPMs I tried to do it with Cygwin as I've 
already had the environment in place, but I'm afraid I never could build 
anything else besides an RPM containing a zero-sized file. So in the end 
I had to build RPMs on Linux. So personally I guess that building RPMs 
on Windows OUTSIDE of Cygwin might be even more complicated, if not 
impossible.

My 2c

Vlad