> Is there a reasonable way under Debian to do cross-apts? A friend of
> mine has a laptop with a winmodem, (so no PPP available, network card
> is a pc-card), but he wants to play. His main system is a Debian
> unstable, so I'm hoping there's a way to do apt-get --root=/hurd
> --system=hurd-i386 install foo
I've been trying to figure this out as well, as apt under hurd hangs for me
about 50% of the time.
man 5 apt.conf
describes how to have the APT_CONFIG variable be used to specify and alternate
apt config file, and
how to use "Architecture" in the APT group to specify which system type is
pulled down.
The part I don't see is how to have dpkg use a different root.
Perhaps you could just use apt to pull stuff down, and then loop over it using
dpkg to install it
from within Hurd.
Or perhaps a combination of this and a chroot call before dpkg is called? I've
never used chroot, so
I'm not positive on this.
A little scripting to wrap the various pieces would be certainly help.
-- Ian
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