I tried reinstalling the hurd after previously getting into problems with dependencies and ending up in a bad way.
Once again im in trouble. I used the tarball method, got networking going, then tried to use dselect and the ftp method to upgrade some packages, i managed to get a few packages installed. I think the first time i only used the debian mirror, and i upgraded a few packages, but now im trying to upgrade from both the debian mirror and alpha.gnu.org, i have about 50 broken packages. There is a new version of hurd, which depends on a new version of libc0.2, i believe it has unpacked these two packages, but because libc0.2 has changed its broken everything that depends on it. Im sure if i could update libc0.2 and hurd id be able to fix things, the libc0.2 depends on libnss, which depends on libdb2 and libdb2-utils, both of which depends on libc0.2. I consider myself a fairly competent debian user, but i just cant work the packaging system under the Hurd. Is it a mistake to use packages at alpha.gnu.org (are they only experimental), or should i have not tried to upgrade the hurd package. I have no clues. Glenn