On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 01:46:27PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Am Don, 02 Nov 2000 03:51:35 schrieb Daniel Burrows: > > There were a lot of dependency issues when I installed (I used > cross-install) > > which I assume are just transient things in the archive (eg, the debconf > thing > > that will hopefully be fixed soon) I got one assertion failure in dpkg > > (1.6.999, "depentry<=4") when installing apt, but forcing depends fixed > > that. > > dpkg 1.6.999 has several bugs and is highly experimental. It's coming > straight from CVS, so go figure. debconf will be uploaded tonight or earlier.
I see. No real problem anyway. One other dependency issue: I can't use apt right now because it wants to remove libstdc++2.10-dev. It seems that while the library package has a correct dependency, the development package depends on "libc6 (>=2.95.1)".. both apt and dselect are annoyed about this, but dselect is easier to fake out.. > > Anyway, the specific thing I'm wondering about is whether something is > > weird with libnss and maybe some other stuff. When I run many programs > (such > > as apt), I get fatal errors about "failure to dlopen libnss2" (or something > > to that effect, I'll post a more concrete message from the Hurd system if > more > > specific information is needed) > > Have you installed libnss-db? It is required by glibc, I think. Yes. > But it seems to be broken anyway. As a work around, remove the db > entries in /etc/nsswitch.conf. Ah, I see. That fixed it. Thanks! > > Also, how does uploading a package for the Hurd work? Am I correct in > > guessing that I can just build it and upload it as usual, or is something > > tricky necessary? (eg, setting the distribution to "sid") I'd like to > upload > > Hurd versions of as many of my packages as possible (aptitude in particular; > > the others are mostly games and I don't know whether the necessary > > infrastructure (ggi, svgalib, sdl, mikmod) exists on the Hurd..) > > You are a Debian maintainer, you can upload. As soon as more people > start uploading, we might organize this a bit, so we don't work on the > same packages. Everything not part of the base or core tool chain is > fair game for everyone. aptitude did not build out of the box > (my local autobuilder tried,maybe a library dev package was not installed). Ok. I just uploaded Hurd compiles of aptitude and lftp. aptitude will compile out of the box in the next source upload (this was binary-only) -- I forgot to conditionalize one "#include <pthread.h>". (I also will really set up build-depends..) lftp compiled very nicely; I figured an upload was overdue since the old version in the Hurd archives lacked most functionality (it could only print "Segmentation Fault" :-) ) > svgalib is dummy only. You might want to port it. svgatextmode was ported, > and X was, so it shouldn't be too hard to figure it out. Ok. > > umm..what else..oh: Has anyone tried to build libsigc++ on the Hurd? The > > next major aptitude version will be heavily dependent on it, and I'd like to > > be able to compile on the Hurd if possible. > > You will get the first chance :) Ah, thanks :) -- /----------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----------------\ | Afternoon, n.: | | That part of the day we spend worrying about how we wasted the morning. | \-Evil Overlord, Inc: planning your future today. http://www.eviloverlord.com-/
