Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/09/12/15:33:39
Mark Paulus schrieb am 2001-09-12, 12:39:
>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
Maybe it will be enough to setup a symlink at the mirrors?
ln perl-5.6.1-2.tar.bz2 perl-5.005...?
Or what is the problem with perl 5.6.1?
Isn't it the case that there are always only minimal
requirements?
>provide a couple of configuration issues (Does anyone know
>how to modify the @INC variable, or enhance/modify the search
>directories at run time??)
use lib;
perldoc lib
man lib
Gerrit
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