On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 08:48:25PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I untarred the gnu-19991025.tar.gz. All worked smoothly. > Manic grins.
Where did you get those from? There should have been silly laugher, but grins... > As a RedHat user I am completely unfamiliar with .debs. Where > can I read about how to install and interrogate them? dpkg in five minutes: dpkg -i *.deb # install dpkg -s package # status dpkg -l # show all packages dpkg -L package # show files of package man dpkg dselect # "front end", apt is better but not there yet. dpkg -S file # which package does file belong to? dpkg --remove package # away with it! dpkg --purge package # even my precious configuration > I thought I'd add emacs, gcc, vim and tcsh, since gnu-19991025 > seems to be without them. Of course. It's only a minimal base. Be careful with tcsh, I did not recompile it in a long while. Better stay with bash if you can. > Eeek! tripped by dependences. How should I have found out > about the various dependences? Try dselect. Try also dpkg --print-avail gcc but this requires a Package.gz file parsed in. If you have a ftp connection from the Hurd, try dselect and ftp method. Or browse the web page of the package, where depends are listed. > How can I know what debs are > already installed? See above. > tcsh_6.08.01-2.2.deb installed ok, but does nothing: > > hurd:/# tcsh > exit As I said, it's probably too old. Fetch the source, make it compile, send us the patch. > Do I distantly recall that this issue had been addressed? > Shall I try to debug it? Where do the diffs go? Does it tell > me somewhere in the .deb file? Diffs to this list please, we need to discuss them most likely. To get the Debian source, fetch the orig.tar.gz, *dsc and *diff.gz from unstable/main/source, use dpkg-source -x *.dsc and cd package-version dpkg-buildpackage -uc -B "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > There are hundreds of .debs in the above directories. Where > did they all come from? I was under the impression that they > were (HURD i386) binaries. Has Marcus been mind-bogglingly > busy? Yes. But not all of them need to be recompiled. so called binary-all packages are installed into all ports because they only contain architecture independant files (or should). This means that kernel-sources of linux are in the Hurd tree :) I compiled over a hundred debs, some of them quite often, others only once to bootstrap. But I did not compiled hundreds of different packages. Also see ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/debian/ and contrib/marcus > Swap question: > RedHat system has the following /etc/fstab entries > /dev/hda4 /gnu # mount the gnu/hurd partition under gnu/linux > /dev/hda3 swap # extra fields removed for clarity > > but when I try to add (the same) swap partition in the > gnu/hurd /etc/fstab like so: > > /dev/hd0s4 / > /dev/hd0s3 swap > > I get the message "No such file" (or partition). Sorry, I > forget the exact message - it flicked by... Go to cd /dev and do ./MAKEDEV hd0s3 ./MAKEDEV hd0s4 we should probably create some default devices. > FAQ pointers happily accepted... http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-faq > Thanks (this has all been much easier than last time), I am glad to hear so :) Seems that installing the Hurd becomes too easy. Anyone wants to do add some obfuscations to the instal process? ;) Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org for public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
