Re: Using apt for software distrubution.

[Carsten Block <carsten.block@cordl.de>]

Hello Jan,

> currently I'm playing with the idea to use apt and a local rep as a backend 
> for automatic software installation - even for pure windows programs.
> Has debian/win that far?
As far as I knew, the only way to use some of the debian install-tools is to 
install the cygwin tools. There are dselect, dpkg and some dpkg-* programs.
But it is not  possible to build debian packages in cygwin by default. A lot 
of tools are missing (e.g. fakeroot).


Best regards
Carsten