From: Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 06 Nov 1998 12:20:15 -0600
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. Oh, cool. That means that when running dpkg on the Hurd we'll be able to see if there are any bugs in the Hurd's chroot. You never know... Incidentally, chroot in the Hurd does not persist through setuid exec--if you are chrooted, and you exec a setuid program, then the setuid program gets the global root, not the chrooted root. I hope this doesn't affect dpkg...
