On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 03:18:53PM +0100, Farid Hajji wrote: > > I have some free time now, and want to focus on an intermediate release of > > Debian GNU/Hurd. No CD, no base disks, just the stuff on the ftp archive > > and some nice installation instructions, to get developers on board. > > Great! I'm currently preparing a tutorial on Mach, Lites and GNU/Hurd > for the german unix users group (GUUG) technical spring conference > in Cologne, http://www.guug.de/ffg99/ due March 17th.
That's not too far from here. But unfortunately, I am moving flat, and can't spend much time there. Amd just for your talk it's too expensive... (and the rest is probably not exactly my interest). > I do have the option to put Mach/Hurd on the proceedings CD-ROM until > ca. 2 March. That's a bit short... but see below. > Since I'm trying to motivate people to write new Mach- und Hurd-based > software, it would be good to provide them on the same occation with a > working development environment... Yes, a good idea. > cross-gcc or cross-egcs packages [built for Debian/Linux] We already have that, it is called "gcc-i386-gnu" and cross-mig is also available. It's in the i386 tree. Notice that this only works on i386. > native-gcc or native-egcs packages egcs. I am building clean one right now :) > gdb Available and installed. > Very important for developers: _sources_ for gnumach, the hurd and glibc! You can just fetch them from any Debian mirror, source directory. > > Expected time frame: two-three weeks. > Could an intermediate release be ready by March 1st for the GUUG CD-ROM? Probably not, but you can do it yourself (we would not do a CD anyway). I will try to help you in any way I can. First, make sure you mirror the hurd-i386 tree from Debian, and parts of the source archive you want. You probably want to make a huge tar file for installation. Get the cross-install native-install dpkg-hurd scripts. Get the idiot's guide. Then, try use the scripts. If you have questions, come back to me. Please understand that I can't do the work for you, as I have little knowledge about preparing a useful CD, and other work is more important, but I will help you with the problems. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
