On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:58:27PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > >>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Jeff> Is there a reasonable way under Debian to do cross-apts? A > Jeff> friend of mine has a laptop with a winmodem, (so no PPP > Jeff> available, network card is a pc-card), but he wants to play. > Jeff> His main system is a Debian unstable, so I'm hoping there's > Jeff> a way to do apt-get --root=/hurd --system=hurd-i386 install > Jeff> foo > > Is > > chroot /hurd > apt-get install foo > > insufficient for your needs? (note: you are going to have some > problems with installing hurd stuff on a Linux system no matter what > you do... Think of postinst scripts that call binary programs...).
That's why dpkg-hurd removes postinst and preinst scripts from a package before installing it. I filed a wishlist item against dpkg for a --do-not-run-postinst-and-presinst-scripts option long time ago, but never got a response on it. It would be truly useful. It would make dpkg-hurd completely obsolete. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
