On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Am Don, 02 Nov 2000 03:22:35 schrieb Philip Charles: > > I see the way forward like this; > > 1. Boot-floppies. Good enough. > > 2. Dselect to be fully functional with a Hurd CD. Hurd hackers needed. > > dselect is probably okay (I used it often without problems) > although the one in the experimental dpkg 1.6.999 may be broken. > What is causing hickups in dselect are the unsatisfied dependencies > on various linux packages. It's not easy to synchronize ourselve > to the ever moving Linux target. Those problems are local to individual > packages and need to be fixed there.
Sounds good. I need to take a close look at this to ensure that it is OK. Dselect versions that are linked to apt can have problems with various access methods, eg it may work over a network, but not access a CD properly. > > 3. Incorporate the dselect into the tarball. Marcus. > > Uh, dselect is part of the dpkg package and thus in every tar > file ever since. Isn't it? I was meaning an A1 dselect. > > 8. Release Hurd 0.1 - this could be minimal, but it would work. > > Hurd 0.2 was released 1997. What is needed is Hurd 0.3, but that's the > Hurd hackers business. What we do is Debian GNU/Hurd, and what we call > it is "unstable snapshot" or whatever. OK a Debian CD version of some yet undetermined name. > > What would be helpful would be another category "Priority: experimental" > > for unstable/unproved packages. This would mean that the file system > > could contain two or more versions of a package, eg "Priority: required" > > and "Priority: experimental". This would remove the neccessity of having > > a frozen file system. However, this is a policy matter and would need > > considerable discussion. > > I don't think so. We just need a couple of more people identifying and > fixing those nasty little dependencies problems and doing more porting. > BTW, Anthony Towns wrote a lot of scripts to test the consistency of > the ftp archive. One if these might help us to identify missing or > conflicting packages. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) This is helpful. I will get onto it. I realy should not have to cave up my mirror to get a partitially working CD. > Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Abbotsford, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 Mobile 025 267 9420. I sell GNU/Linux CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz
