On 05/28/2013 11:10 AM, heroxbd wrote: > Dear Samuel and Pino, > (I am not subscribed to debian-hurd list, please Cc me off the list) > > I am a co-mentor of "OpenRC init system in Debian" project this year. > > Our project is about to Debianize OpenRC[1], a candidate replacement for > /etc/init.d/rc originated from Gentoo written in C and POSIX > shell. OpenRC is created with portability in mind and it runs on FreeBSD > port of Gentoo. > > The packaging effort is ongoing, and we expect a usable package > available by the end of soc (Hopefully earier). A nice summary of most > recent present progress is posted by Thomas, > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/183307 > > I read in GNU/Hurd Debianish init project[2] that > > ,---- > | The goal of this project is to make this port use the default Debian > | init system (currently: sysvinit and its rc, sysv-rc), fixing bugs in it > | and in the associated init scripts, and then simply enable them instead > | of the GNU/Hurd upstream ones. > `---- > > and sensed commonalities between our projects. Although it is not mature > to say we can roll out a Debianized OpenRC on GNU/Hurd under the > collaboration of both projects, it would be nice to keep us updated of > the progress to watch for this possibility. Being no expert on Hurd nor > init system, I think OpenRC might be cleaner to hack than sysv-rc. > > Hints and comments welcome :) > > Cheers, > Benda
Hi everyone, Would it be possible to give Bill Wang and heroxbd an ssh access on a porter box, so that they can make sure that OpenRC builds in Hurd? Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51a439d5.8070...@debian.org