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Re: Usage of dpkg under cygwin



On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 19:20, James Michael DuPont wrote:

> Thanks for the great work on the dpkg porting, it is much further than
> I had thought.
> 
> Here is an idea : What do you think about using dpkg to create cygwin
> packages? Like modify the output of dpkg to create a cygwin compatible
> installer package. That way you only have one control file, and that,
> plus the rules contains all the information needed anyway?

As long as what is generated follows the cygwin policy, that is fine.
It's better to add a new archive type to setup.exe though, IMO. Mind
you, as I'm the setup.exe maintainer, I would say that :}.

Rob 



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