Re: Newbie question

On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 06:44:25PM +0100, Jeremie Koenig wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 01:11:42PM -0800, James Michael DuPont wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>I suppose, dpkg is chroot'ing while configuring packages installed with
>--root. Anyway, don't packages expect being installed in / ? Are you
>using a special build process or anything to avoid such problems ? Just
>by curiosity...

FWIW, cygwin is supposed to have a working chroot().  If it isn't working
then that's a cygwin bug.

cgf