On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 12:20:15PM -0600, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: > Hi, all! > > I've finally got a working Hurd platform again, so I've been seeing > what can be done to make it easier for people to start installing and > using Debian GNU/Hurd packages.
Great News. I have finished some weired html pages about some hardware "donated" to me, so I can remove it again (I assume it hangs the kernel, at least it doesn't boot), so I'm back RSN, too. > Basically, dpkg is not suitable for cross-platform installations, > because the --instroot option uses the chroot call, which breaks all > the installation scripts (i.e. they see only Hurd binaries, rather > than the current system's). There's no easy solution to this problem, > aside from running dpkg under the Hurd. Yes. Dpkg was never intended to cope with this. > So, to bootstrap the system, I'll be putting together a simple shell > script to extract the basic Debian packages from a non-Hurd system. > As soon as that's done, Debian GNU/Hurd should be pretty close to > catching up to where gnu-0.2 left off. Mmmh. We should also investigate the boot floppies. With the basic packages compiled, we can equally easily work from there. Check the boot floppies package for details. > Joey has been trying to call me recently, too, so I should be a > registered Debian developer RSN (then Santiago and Marcus shouldn't be > lonely anymore). ;) Hip Hip Hurray! Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
