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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Christophe Prud'homme" <prudhomm AT MIT DOT EDU>, "Cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Re: Cygwin + Debian
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 08:04:01 +1000
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From: "Christophe Prud'homme" <prudhomm AT MIT DOT EDU>


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Subject: Re: Cygwin + Debian
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:19:20 -0400
From: Christophe Prud'homme <prudhomm AT mit DOT edu>
To: Kevin Wright <kevin AT wright DOT org>

<snip>

Thanks Kevin

I will have a look
right now I am trying to port dpkg and related tools
I ran into some problems with dpkg while compiling it
without doing anything. I'll have to have a closer look now



Christophe, have you read the threads in cygwin-developers about this?

In summary there are 2 major issues with dpkg and cygwin today...
1) FIFO support is required for dpkg.
2) Win32 does not allow replacement of open files without a reboot (*And
the method is different for 9x/NT)

I've looked into this extensively before, to understand what could be
done - I'd like to see setup.exe be able to bootstrap a dpkg
environment - but there is still a lot of work on cygwin's
"unix-like-ness" needed.

Rob


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