Hello, this is just a quick check of the status of the various Debian developers (and other contributors) who have installed Hurd in the last weeks. Especially I would like to know what you need to get started to compile and upload some packages. Here is what I will do:
* Expect a new dpkg soon, now with working dpkg-source and start-stop-daemon. * I will start to submit some patches for Hurdish debian/rules files. Alas, we have still no policy in force, and official dpkg can't handle it. I wonder how long it takes for either Ian or the policy group to take action. But a wishlist bug report should be okay. I do this so you have some examples how to use dpkg-architecture. * We need a new libc6 for dpkg-shlibdeps (and even then we won't have a guarantee that it works). The alternative is to use objdump and the dpkg-cross version even natively (which is limited in some serious way). As I have a new 10 GB disk, I will at least try to compile glibc (Roland reported success). Gordon, what's the current status? Will ldd work in the next glibc? * We need new snaphsots of hurd, gnumach. This has to be checked with the authors. After these steps, everything should be ready for seamless native package building. * I will try to continue my work on sysvinit after glibc, so the boot process is smoother. * The archive needs to be cleaned up. I need to check if we have need for binary-all-hurd and binary-all-linux (I feel a need, but I need hard numbers) * Then, I will actually try to get auto-building to work. this would bea big step forward. That's from my side, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
