Hello, I know everyone wants to try the Hurd, but the ftp archive is in a dangerous state and may give you some headache if you are not careful.
Especially, slang1 is broken. I build a replacement ages agom but for some reason it was never installed in the archive. Then, there are a lot of packages you should NOT install. There are two reasons: 1) The package may be declared as architecture: All, but is not usable for the Hurd, or even may break things. This is makedev, for example. 2) I uploaded the package, but it should not be there. For example login, dpkg-dev (use dpkg-hurd-dev instead). So be a bit careful when installing packages beyond the base system that isinstalled by cross install. Packages in other secxtions than base/ should be mostly harmless. They will at least not crash your system as far as I know. They may still be unusable. Solution for this problem: 1) No easy solution, Gord was working on a general solution (Gord, where's your proposal?). 2) I can ask the ftp maintainers to remove such packages, and will do so as soon as I have made a list. 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
