Hi, On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 04:19:04PM +0100, Robert Lemmen wrote: > i tried to install the hurd and finally succeeded to some point (now i > don't know what to do with it!), but you might be interested in my > experience, so here it goes: > > - i did all of this under a virtualbox and i first installed a very > minimal current linux (testing), from there i ran crosshurd > - i changed /etc/crosshurd/preferences and pinned util-linux from > unstable over * from unreleased over * from unstable. perhaps this > only means util-linux in unreleased is outdated and should be removed? > perhaps we need some script that monitors versions in unreleased an > unstable and notifies someone under certain conditions?
The outdated packages now got removed. I am keeping unreleased pinned over unstable right now, because the last important package from debian-ports for a debootstrap is dhcp-client, which is an empty transitional package to dhcp3-client in sid and we really need the package from debian-ports for now until dhcp3 gets ported. > - i also changed /etc/crosshurd/packages/common and added initscripts > and insserv, because util-linux now depends on initscripts which in > turn complain if insserv isn't installed. since insserv isn't > required, i also added a line to the native-isntall script rigth after > the unpacking of the reuqired packages to do the same for insserv. Thanks, I have changed crosshurd accordingly. > haven't looked too closely at the dependencies around this (beacuse > it's nauseating), but i am not sure if there isn't a serious bug there > somewhere: initscripts calls insserv in its setup script, so it should > pre-depend on it, and if it does depend on it, doesn't that make > insserv required as well? is that really the way to go? Not really sure either. > - after native-install i get told some stuff about how to run the > console, which doesn't seem to work, perhaps that is outdated? Could be, can you say a bit more about what does not work, do you get an error message? The minimum command-line for the Hurd console is "console -d vga -d pc_kbd /dev/vcs" I think > - otherwise it does install with these mods Cool! Thanks for your report, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
