Greg Olszewski wrote: > > 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.
Yes, cross-install needs an update. Replacing base/libncurses4 with oldlibs/libncurses4 should make it work better. > Next: I've hit some dependency issues, and don't know if this is the right > place to report them.. Here is correct. > logrotate wants cron 3.0pl1-53 but I only have 3.0pl1-50 Yeah, right. cron needs a recompile and finally the PATH_MAX issue should be resolved. However, I don't think it is that urgent. > bsdutils wants sysvinit ( I think I've seen something mentioned about > this before ) Just force it. An experimental sysvinit is available at alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/contrib/marcus/ > 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 apt 0.1.9 is broken anyway, just forget about it. debconf really depends on apt? I hope not so. > 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. You saw that I compiled openssl and openssh? (homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ssh) BTW, the fix is correct. OTOH, you forgot to mention the PATH_MAX and MAXHOSTNAMELEN issues, right? > 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. It doesn't. I am already in contact with openssl about the correct patch. libc0.2 is NOT a sign of bit dust. Look at the full version number (it is libc0.2-2.x.x), which is comparable to the linux versions. > 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. Sorry, you are out of the game :) Come back later when you fixed your law... Luckily, I am in German (see above for the link) > hmm. what else.. > oh. Is there a way to do virtual terminals like in GNU/Linux? Not yet. > What needs doing? Where shall I start.... If you want to take over with openssl and openssh, I can send you my current patch and what was already discussed with the openssl people. I wouldn't mind passing it on. No patch will touch crypto code, so it should be safe to transmit the necessary patches back and forth. Thanks, Marcus
