Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: apt-get (was Re: setup.exe: ... ) From: Robert Collins To: Robert Citek Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20030305182416.01722950@mail.earthlink.net> References: <3.0.5.32.20030305101036.0198d910@mail.earthlink.net> <3.0.5.32.20030305101036.0198d910@mail.earthlink.net> <3.0.5.32.20030305182416.01722950@mail.earthlink.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-wt9OOfJjoF1YFaGWi3W6" Organization: Message-Id: <1046920470.1621.3.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 06 Mar 2003 14:14:30 +1100 --=-wt9OOfJjoF1YFaGWi3W6 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 11:24, Robert Citek wrote: > Hello Robert, >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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 --=20 GPG key available at: . --=-wt9OOfJjoF1YFaGWi3W6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+Zr0WI5+kQ8LJcoIRAuKWAJwMM9FsS/nGwqBFUae3sw8VJF1vbACgw1r8 r/XvdX3q3BqOOxWBIH7WM00= =RBM2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-wt9OOfJjoF1YFaGWi3W6--