On 1 Jul 2003, Jeff Bailey wrote: > Crosshurd is the replacement for Marcus' tarball system. The biggest > problem with the tarballs is that it fell quickly out of date. > Crosshurd is intended to solve this problem by using apt to go out and > fetch the current debs. > *** > 2) Use debootstrap to install a Debian system in a chroot jail and then > use crosshurd. Note that the one in testing is broken because of a > recent change to alpha.gnu.org. The one in unstable works fine. I > should've marked it urgency high, but hey. Does anyone actually *Run* > testing? =)
Yup. Me. Production System and all that. > Marcus moved his tarball to attic/ to give the hint that it shouldn't be > used anymore. Crosshurd is well setup to make tarballs, if someone > feels like it. Or one day I might setup fencepost to do it. Fencepost > has been having "issues" though. Sounds as though it will be useful to me. Thinks, I might be able to use this for the initial installation. Should have time in a few weeks. I start the pesion then. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818 Fax +64 3 488 2875 Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sell GNU/Linux & GNU/Hurd CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz