* Robert Collins [Jeudi 21 Juin 2001 06:04 pm ] :
> Christophe, have you read the threads in cygwin-developers about this?
Nope not yet unfortunately
>
> 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)
yes that's a problem I encoutered :(
>
> 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.
yes I got this idea while playing with setup.exe, Actually I just ssetup my own cygwin
mirror
with some additional package of my own but tweaking setup.ini and it works really great
so bootstraping a dpkg env is definitely possible just create the right setup.ini
(I hope that I don't miss anything :) )
is there a plan about this?
do you need help?
I could help on this project, I am new to cygwin and windows but I am willing to
give some time
C.
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