On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 10:32:57PM +1000, matthew green wrote: > wow. i'm very impressed.
Thanks :) > console-tools/data (probably needs to be replaced by BSD analogues) > > > which are these? i'm not actually very familiar with debian. Configuration of the console - loading fonts, keymaps, that sort of thing. Without having looked at the source, I think it's likely that it's pretty dependent on the Linux kernel so we probably need to package the analagous BSD tools. > note there are two: /usr/libexec/ld.so (a.out) and /usr/libexec/ld.elf_so, > but you will also need a linux one in /emul/linux/whatever/it/lives.so. That shouldn't be too hard to manage. > libc6 (package NetBSD one) > > > ? libc6 is glibc? i'm not sure it works on netbsd. It's glibc2, yup. What I meant here was that we should be packaging the NetBSD libc rather than trying to compile glibc2 on NetBSD (that one's somewhat past my abilities at present :) ) > libpam (package netBSD version?) > > > > don't think this exists. >From looking at /usr/pkgsrc/security/PAM, it looks like NetBSD uses a lightly patched Linux one. > i would avoid using a /proc based ps(1) with a modern NetBSD kernel. > our /bin/ps is not setuid, or setgid, and works extremely fast. you > should definately use it. Sounds sane. > i believe you should go for a full sysvinit, but i know that this would > be a hard sell back to the netbsd camp. (extending our rc.d / rcorder > system with some runlevel-like feature would probably work though?) Sure. It ought to be pretty easy to hack it into a state where we can boot Debian-style but limited to a single runlevel, which ought to be enough for a starting point. My Hurd box no longer exists, so does anyone have any idea what they're doing with init? I'm back in Cambridge now. The FTP server I mentioned earlier is now back up (nothing in the logs, oddly), so the base tarball should be available again. I'll upload the packages I got built while I was away in a couple of hours and let you know where they are. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
