On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 10:43:29AM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote: > It occured recently to me that requiring dpkg to be installed for the .deb > installation method of the Hurd is a nuisance for a significant number of > people (as evidenced by periodic postings to this list) Since the > cross-install > scripts only use dpkg as a simple archive extractor, it seems like we should > be able to replace it with calls to ar, tar, and gzip by fiddling with > dpkg-hurd a little bit. I looked over the script and it looks quite doable, > probably the work of a few hours at most. Does anyone know of any reason > that this wouldn't be possible? If not, I may look into it this evening..
This was the first approach, and it is not worth our time. Beside unpacking the files, you also need to keep the dpkg database files up to date, and handle configuration files correctly. For people who can't get at dpkg, there is the tar ball install. Note that cross-install is only a temporary solution until there are boot disks. However, if you really think this is worth some work, I would suggest that you write some instructions how to make install dpkg on non-Debian systems so that cross-install works there. Thanks, 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]
