ITP: dpkg

Robert Collins robert.collins@syncretize.net
Sun Jul 21 22:34:00 GMT 2002



> -----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



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