On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 02:14:42AM +0200, Fabian Sturm wrote:
> Hello
> I have a little question about hurd and the debian distribution.
> On their site they wrote that only 10% of the debain packages
> are ported to the hurd.
This figure relates well to the binary "any" packages, which have to be
recompiled to use them.
On the contrary, binary "all" packages are supposed to work on all
distributions, regardless of chip or operating system. Unfortunately, quite
some of them assume a Linux OS (because the Hurd is relatively new Debian
port).
> So i started to download the hurd distribution and after 700Mb
> my harddisk was full?!
Debian is huge :)
> So what is this distribution? Are the packages which are included
> ported to the hurd or not? And if yes why is there e.g. a package like
> kernel-source-2.0.36_2.0.36-3.deb ??
> Sounds like the linux kernel source.
Yep, that's a binary-all package.
> And perhaps you can give me a hint where i should split the
> distribution to put it on cdroms.
Sorry, you will have to figure this out for yourself. Note that many
binary-all packages are actually uninstallable because of missing binary any
packages or quite useless.
Thanks,
Marcus
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