On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 06:38:49PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Max Bowsher wrote >>I've entertained fantasies of making integrating dpkg into setup.exe, >>and making Cygwin packages be in .deb format > >I'll certainly love .deb packages, surely apt support. Cygwin is >command-line, so it would be nice to ssh remotely in a machine, run >apt-get update && apt-get upgrade to mantain the Cygwin system....
That's precisely why people think about integrating something like rpm or deb into the packaging system. However, the funny thing about free software is that no matter how much people want this type of thing it still requires someone to do the actual work. I would hate to see this thread become a wish-fest when there is obviously no one interested in doing this work. That would be a waste of good electrons. I will point out that there is no mystery to the format of cygwin packages. They are just .tar.bz2 files and they are *MUCH* simpler than rpm or deb files (and I am intimately acquainted with all three formats, thanks). It is not that hard to extract .tar.bz2 files and install them except for the chicken/egg problem of installing packages that are used to install packages. That is a basic problem with rpm and deb too. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
