Thanks!. I will try your suggestions. Best regards.
Elías On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 8:18 AM, Christian Seiler <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 a lot of the documentation you find is a bit outdated for 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 searching you more often than not find the outdated docs in 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
