Howdy. I installed the hurd last night. It almost went smoothly. Ran into a problem with libncurses4, It's listed as being in base/ but is actually in oldlibs, and the script wouldn't find it on my mirror, I switched it to libncurses5 thinking that would work, and it did for the install, but dselect dies without libncurses4.
Next: I've hit some dependency issues, and don't know if this is the right place to report them.. logrotate wants cron 3.0pl1-53 but I only have 3.0pl1-50 bsdutils wants sysvinit ( I think I've seen something mentioned about this before ) and the one that bugs me the most apt is 0.1.9, and won't install because debconf wants apt 0.3.12.1 (All the packages come from a local mirror which rsync's to debian.midco.net nightly) I hit the problem mentioned a few days ago with serverboot not understanding the ext2 partition and the fixed version mentioned here worked great. Now. I want to make ssh run. I've managed to get openssl(which openssh relies on) to compile. Just had to add a hurd target in the Configure script with TERMIOS instead of TERMIO. OpenSSL supports threading, and one thing I had to put in the Configure script was to use -D_REENTRANT when compiling, however I wanted to make sure that libc supports this on hurd. Being listed as libc0.2 I assume it's under seriours developement. Next - OpenSSL passes make tests, so I figure it works. There's no hurd package for this yet, so I could make on, however this is a non-us package and I'm in the US. So am I just out of luck here? I've read something about recently changed export laws but don't know how this affects things- I looked at the past 3 months of debian-legal and saw one question on this subject but no answers. hmm. what else.. oh. Is there a way to do virtual terminals like in GNU/Linux? What needs doing? thanks for your time, greg -- this is not here
