Re: Newbie question
apt does/would install into /, which is defined within the cygwin
environment. So, packages still get installed into the appropriate
locations, under your cygwin root (mine is d:\cygwin).
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 18:44:25 +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...
>
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