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Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 18:24:16 -0600
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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?

>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?

Regards,
- Robert


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