On 11/07/2016 12:46 AM, Elías Alejandro wrote: > I wonder if there's a way to build packages for distinct > architectures, specifically for > Hurd or Kfreebsd. Do I have to create a new installation or use qemu?.
In my experience the easiest way to do so is to use a virtual machine (I prefer libvirt + virt-manager with Qemu for that), boot the machine, install an SSH server and In the case of Hurd, you really don't want to use that on your bare-metal hardware, because last time I checked it didn't support USB yet. (If you don't need USB you can of course use it. ;-)) kFreeBSD is not a problem in that regard, but unless your system is really RAM-starved a VM is still much easier to handle. Note that it's not completely trivial to set up these machines. The problem is that most installation media you can find are a bit older, and if you've ever tried to install testing/sid with an older installer, you can see that it often doesn't quite work because sid will have moved on quite a bit. Plus a lot of the documentation you find is a bit outdated for both archs - there is more current documentation, but when searching you more often than not find the outdated docs in my experience, before you find the current ones. In the case of Hurd Samuel Thibault provides premade images you can use: https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/README https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/ I suspect that's going to be the easiest way of setting up a VM there. (Please do a dist-upgraded before you actually use them to try stuff though, they are relatively up to date, but aren't daily images.) In the case of kFreeBSD, I'm not completely sure anymore, but if I remember correctly, I used the Jessie rc3 installer to install the VM and then dist-upgraded to sid (by changing the sources.list): http://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/jessie_di_rc3/kfreebsd-amd64/iso-cd/ (That may or may not work, depending on whether I remember correctly.) In both cases (Hurd, kFreeBSD) please be aware that while a lot of the everyday userland is still the same as with the Linux ports (e.g. ls, cp, etc.), many administrative commands are quite different or at least have different options / a different output. Especially Hurd can be quite weird when you first come in contact with it; once you get to know some of the concepts and ideas behind it, it's actually really cool, but there's a bit of a learning curve there. Hope that helps. > [1]https://wiki.debian.org/qemubuilder I haven't tried that yet, but from reading the wiki page it looks to me that it's mostly a Linux thing - and while there is no inherent reason why fully-fledged VMs with Hurd or kFreeBSD wouldn't work in principle with something like that, I suspect that you'd need to fix a lot of things to make it work. (I may be wrong though.) It's probably easier to just use a virtual machine manually yourself. Regards, Christian
