Hurd-F1 CDs should be out of the door once the exim problem is sorted out, so I am wanting to float a few ideas about future CDs.
I am trying to produce installation CDs without interfering with the overall development process. This has the effect of reducing the pressure to produce an official release of the Hurd. However, people may want such an official release sometime. Any comments? IMHO this is not needed or desirable at this stage, but in 12 months, two years? Life would be easier for everyone if a move could be made from dselect to apt-cdrom for CD installations. There are three factors involved. apt-cdrom. I have had a quick look at this and I have not got it to work. It may just need a configuration file, if this is the case a sample should be included in the package. Has anyone got apt-cdrom working for the Hurd? If so would they contact me. task-* packages. My dealings with the Hurd sub-set suggest that, at this stage at least, the Hurd should have its own task packages (hurd-task??). The dependencies of task packages can be constructed to require a specific version of a package. At a guess about 10 - 20 such packages would be required. These task packages would make the installation of the Hurd simpler for people using a network or CD. It would also make life easier for me as the CDs would be built by meeting the dependencies of these task packages. Task packages are easy to build, even I can do it. However, I am not going to take this on as I need to draw boundaries somewhere ;). The maintenance of these packages would be an ideal place for three or four people new to the Hurd to find their feet as developers. tasksel. Nice, useful and I would like it. Apt-get task-* will do the same job. Comments, suggestions, discussion, flames? Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Dunedin, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 Mobile 025 267 9420. I sell GNU/Linux CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED] - prefered. [EMAIL PROTECTED]