On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 03:10:44PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > The people on debian-bsd are starting to get the netbsd-i386 > architecture bootstrapped now, too. It might be worth talking to them, > as they're beginning to run into the same issues.
And they are in the same position as we, that they can't do anything about it but to make good suggestions and trying to get the people who can do something about motivated to solve the problem (or at least interest themselves for a solution). I've thrown some ideas into the open already (in fact, several times, mostly in 1999 and 2000 if I recall correctly), and volunteered to work out more details. But there was an utter lack of response, and I am not going to spend the necessary time into a solution that is then rejected by the dpkg maintainer, or the apt maintainer, or the ftp admins, or the autobuilders, or by someone else, or is not going to happen for some other reason. Unless I get input on at least the basic ideas of how to proceed in this issue, I can't commit myself to devote the time to this part of the project. Input like, yes, "that is as much flexibility as we want" or "this is too much, step back and find a simpler solution" or just anything. It's not that I am not able or not willing to work out solutions to this problem (see for example http://master.debian.org/~brinkmd/arch-handling.txt, which describes a more complex approach to this issue as we will probably be possible to implement in Debian). But as I am not in charge for this, I can only offer my help and wait. Note that I fully realize that this is a complex problem, and it is of low priority for Debian GNU/Linux, although there are some interesting aspects of it for them, too. Some work those people above did at leasts is useful as a preparation to a solution (like the pools concept). So please understand the above more as a description of the problem rather than a criticism. However, I should also say that there is a definit need for a solution, and I won't even think of a release of Debian GNU/Hurd before that is resolved, or put any effort into the direction of a release. Thanks, 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
