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RE: ITP: dpkg
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at syncretize dot net>
- To: "'Lapo Luchini'" <lapo at lapo dot it>
- Cc: "'Cygwin-Apps'" <cygwin-apps at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 14:42:55 +1000
- Subject: RE: ITP: dpkg
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lapo Luchini [mailto:lapo@lapo.it]
> Sent: Saturday, 20 July 2002 7:48 PM
> To: Robert Collins
> Cc: 'Cygwin-Apps'
> Subject: Re: ITP: dpkg
>
>
> >
> >
> >If I wanted to do that, I would be
> >contributing my time to the debian-w32 port effort. I'm
> simply trying to
> >get my favourite packaging tool available for my use, and
> share it with
> >others if they want it.
> >
> I guess also people at http://debian-cygwin.sourceforge.net/ should
> appreciate it, given the fairly "complicated" boot system
> they suggest
> (changing passwd and groups to be 0/0, installing dpkg.exe in sbin,
> installing with it, then removing it... surely not for the
> casual user).
>
> Thumbs up for me.
And that's three yes's, with no no's. I'm uploading this now.
Has anyone checked that I haven't overlooked something in the layout?
Rob