On 2004.06.09 13:01, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > > Miquel, could you please briefly explain what kind of features in > > the new libc do you need, and what kind of breakage would happen > > when using the old libc? > > Older versions of glibc included the /etc/init.d/mountkernfs and > /etc/init.d/devpts.sh scripts. The latest initscripts package > includes a /etc/init.d/mountvirtfs script that takes over that > functionality. glibc >= 2.3.2-12 doesn't include those scripts > anymore. > > I don't think that script gets installed on Debian GNU/Hurd. And even > if they did, they can't be run since they are GNU/Linux specific with > their need for /proc... > > Newer sysvinits need to depend on a glibc >= 2.3.2-12. > > Since Debian GNU/Hurd doesn't use sysvinit, just depending on libc0.3 > seems like a good enough solution I think, or just not listing libc0.3 > at all (as it is now AFAIK).
Wait, the Hurd doesn't use sysvinit at all ? I do get regular bugreports saying "this needs to be fixed for the hurd" and "hurd needs a hurd-specific inittab" and so on. Where does that come from, then ? *confused* (see e.g. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=246743) Okay, anyway, if the hurd doesn't use sysvinit then I only need to bother with kFreeBSD. And I shouldn't have been posting here in the first place, I guess ;) Thanks, Mike.
