On Wed, 2 May 2001, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:12:26AM +0200, Andreas L. Gustafsson wrote: > > But of course not! It's never easy to start a new distrobution. I just > > found the idea interesting. I don't know .deb but I know rpm and Solaris > > pkgadd and I'd like to use them. If someone else hav had the same thought, > > please send me a letter. I'll not hinder or bother you. I just wanted to > > try to find someone who felt it was a good idea. If nobode has done any > > work to try to pu together a Hurd distro based on e.g. rpm then I think it > > should be done, and I'm ready to start lokking into it as soon I know more > > about the Hurd. > > First step is to port the Debian package of rpm and check if cpio and alien > do work on the Hurd (they should).
Port the Debian package of rpm? Wouldn't just compile rpm from sources and making that work be the most portable way? Or am I missing something important now? BTW, I don't think I've ever heard of 'alien' what is that? /Andreas
