Re: Newbie question

[Tim Heath <wgheath@fedex.com>]

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 <wgheath@fedex.com> wrote:
>  
>
> > 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.  
> >    
>
> 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 tried to
> > find 
> > an answer to this by looking at the documentation but could not find
> > it. 
> >    
> Yeah, apt is a higher level, it has more dependancies than dpkg.
>
>  
>
> > 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.
> >    
> You dont need admin access to install dpkg, just install cygwin, that
> does not need admin (i dont think).
>
> mike
>
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> James Michael DuPont
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