On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Nikita V. Youshchenko <yo...@debian.org> wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 04:55:52PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: >> > On Tue, 04 Jan 2011, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: >> > > I would like to install dpkg under Windows Vista. >> > >> > This is almost certainly going to be an exercise in pain. >> >> For building it, maybe, but not for getting it prebuilt. Cygwin ports >> has a version: >> (From ftp://sourceware.org/pub/cygwinports/portslist.txt) >> >> dpkg 1.15.7.2-1 > > Some years ago there was an attempt to port Debian to windows kernel. If I > remember correctly, blocking problem was that windows does not allow to > replace opened files, which dpkg deeply depends on.
Renaming open files works, so that should no longer be a problem. Olaf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlkti=_jp-wd6mskwuo4pcd0snvk2uy6fusn_zjj...@mail.gmail.com
