On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 10:16:09AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > I'm just curious why there are linux kernel sources in hurd distribution > ...sid/main/binary-hurd-i386 ?
The kernel sources are in the binary-all part of our distribution, which historically contains all packages that can run on all linux platforms without being recompiled (perl scripts, data files etc). As the Hurd is very new, we have not our own binary-all dist, but share the linux one. There are defintiely some problems, for example base/makedev, packages that work under all linux ports but not under Hurd. Because the correct solution requires major chnages to the Debian ftp archive and packaging process, we can not hope for a quick solution to this problem. BTW, the linux kernel sources can actually be useful: We use the linux block device drivers in the GNU Mach kernel, and you may want to update some of them for your own compiled version of GNU Mach. Really serious are packages that are binary-all for Linux but break stuff on the Hurd, like the linux makedev package. We have indeed a problem here. I am working on it. 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
