Well after I changes my sources.list to point at alpha.gnu.org along with a debian mirror bsdutils now wants to be upgraded. I can select gcc and download the debs using aptitude and it wants to upgrade bsdutils, dpkg, and gnumach. It however will not install them (I figure it wouldn't). Is there some way that could get aptitude (apt still bitches about the sysvinit dependency not bening met) to call dpkg with --root=/gnu and get it to cross install? I'm gonna do some digging and see if I can come up with a solution, but if anyone has any idea I'd appreciate it. BTW, how are you guys getting apt to work under the HURD if there are all these unmet dependencies?
Couldn't I install the HURD apt deb and have apt from use the archives cache that I have set up on Linux using that apt.conf file that someone gave me (sorry, I forgot who it was). I do have the debs downloaded but they are in the archives directory in that funky apt-like form with the %'s in the file names (like for example gcc_1%3a2.95.2-14_hurd-i386.deb). Maybe this is not import and I should just dp dpkg -i from the HURD. Dan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel E. Baumann E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (caution: dynamic DNS) Web location: http://www.msoe.edu/~baumannd http://www.linuxfreak.com/~baumannd "Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code." -- Dave Olson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------