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From:	"Mark Paulus" <commpg AT yahoo DOT com>
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Date:	Wed, 12 Sep 2001 12:39:21 -0600
Reply-To:	"Mark Paulus" <commpg AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject:	Debianized Cygwin

Hi,

I have embarked upon a long and arduous path (I haven't
even gotten out of the door, and I'm already exhausted)
to bring the debian package management system/
environment to cygwin.  I have gotten some things
accomplished, and would like to know if others are 
interested.  To date, I have managed to get the following
done, plus some other little things:

- I have started a project within sourceforge.net - debian-cygwin
- I have successfully built dpkg on my system and installed it.
- I have managed to bring down and rebuild several miscellaneous
  packages (debhelper, dpkg-dev, libsgmls-perl, sp, etc)
- I have managed to build and install apt
- I have managed to rebuild the dpkg package in it's entirety.
- I have started to rebuild other packages.

All this is in it's infancy, and I will need to start doing some work
on the sourceforge page to get this rolling, and accessible
by others.

One of the things I will need very quickly is a pseudo package
for perl 5.005.  Cygwin supplies Perl 5.6.1, but I need the 
pseudo package to take care of dependency issues, and to
provide a couple of configuration issues (Does anyone know 
how to modify the @INC variable, or enhance/modify the search
directories at run time??)





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