On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 11:24, Robert Citek wrote: > Hello Robert, > > At 07:16 AM 3/6/2003 +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > >Not that I'm aware of. I really need to refresh the dpkg port in cygwin > >at some point. > > > >I had foolishly hoped that porting it would encourage the debian folks > >who had been so keen on getting apt etc going to contribute apt, debconf > >etc. > > What would need to be done to get apt-get ported? Could you provide some > pointers of where you think a good starting point for background reading is?
Well, the debian policy would be a good place. First though, you'd probably want to port debconf, the debian configuration system, to get a fully capable dpkg environment. Then, apt should be pretty trivial. > >At least I can build debs for cygwin though. > > Conceptually, how does that work? Do you take a cygwinn tar.gz file and > convert it to deb? Then to install the cygwin .deb package you would use > dpkg, correct? Make -f debian/rules usually does it :}. And yes, to install such packages I used dpkg. Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt>.
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