> I know I've asked these before, but the answers have fumbled out of my > sieve-like brain. > > 1.) What is the init regime on a Hurd system?
So far, the style of "init regime" is not a thing definitively set by the Hurd. What the Hurd does nowadays is run /libexec/runsystem and that (usually a shell script) is responsible for realizing whatever the init regime is. Currently, there are two styles available. The Hurd package provides traditional BSD-style init that uses /libexec/rc and /etc/ttys. Marcus has also put together a sysvinit package for Hurd, which replaces /libexec/runsystem with one that uses the sysv-style init from Linux. > 2.) There is some way of fetching those packages on the debian ftp > server which have been updated since the last time I installed? > I seem to remember there is some option to dpkg to do roughly what > apt-get upgrade does, but I don't recall what it is. I would prefer > to fetch the .deb files actually, just so that I can do a full > reinstall without fetching anything through my slow 56K modem. I use dselect's Update option and then its menu shows me all the packages for which a newer version is available.
