Hi, As you may have noted, dpkg 1.4.1.2 was uploaded a while ago to alpha.
It contains a good deal of patches to make it fully functional. Also, to indicate that it is a fork of real dpkg, I changed the package names to dpkg-hurd and dpkg-hurd-dev. This wasn't such a good idea after all. The build process already showed me where the implicit assumption was made that the package name is indeed dpkg and nothing else, but I didn't expect that the binary does as well! dpkg --assert-support-predepends breaks, which makes it impossible to install newer versions of important packages like bash. To fix this, edit /var/lib/dpkg/status and change the "Package: dpkg" entry to "Status: install ok installed" and "Version: 1.4.1.2". This will make it work. Next version will have the package naming change undone, it is just not worth it. My original intention was to upload this in the Debian archive, but alpha is just as well, so who cares. I upload bash 2.02.1-1.4, which compiled and built with almost no changes natively! I had to pgp sign it under Linux, though. Beside of that, native building is perfectly possible now, so just go ahead, but make sure to use dpkg 1.4.1.2 (or later) and patch the dpkg-source script if you use 1.4.1.2, if you don't have newer hurd (which is not released yet). Thanks, 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
