Re: Newbie question

Are there plans to port apt so that it can be used?  Just having dpkg is 
good but the real power I have found with debian is the ability to 
dynamically deploy and get packages from across the internet.  

Thanks,

Tim Heath

James Michael DuPont wrote:

>--- Tim Heath <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>I want to know if apt has been ported to cygwin and if someone can 
>>actually create a .deb file deploy it to a web server and have it 
>>install with apt-get install <package name> in cygwin.  
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>As far as I know, APT is not compiled, but dpk is. I have had problems
>with dpkg because of the setroot. It is good for unpacking things, but
>not installing them. 
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>>I tried to
>>find 
>>an answer to this by looking at the documentation but could not find
>>it. 
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>Yeah, apt is a higher level, it has more dependancies than dpkg.
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>> I am on linux and don't have administrative access on my other
>>windows 
>>boxes to try to test this to answer my own question.
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>You dont need admin access to install dpkg, just install cygwin, that
>does not need admin (i dont think).
>
>mike
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