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Is it a good idea to build RPMs and Debian packages on Cygwin? Our release server is windows, so our options are either that or start up VMs with linux to handle the task.
I’m just not sure if VMs are taking a nuclear bomb to an ant. Is there a way to do the building in Cygwin? If so, how? So far I’ve found some clues…apparently Cygwin should be able to do rpms. Debian stuff has been not as easy to find.
I’ve been running a small debian to do my debian builds in a VM (VMware and virtualbox on Mac, Windows and even Ubuntu) in order to avoid the hassle with dependencies, architectures and so forth.
It may be a big hammer, but a text based environment runs really light, even under a emulator. For building packages a UI just gets in the way.