Re: Compiling gnumach 19981025

1998-11-09 Thread Roland McGrath
> Is there information available for anonymous CVS? Which software is > available from there (out of mig, gnumach, hurd and sim.)? Last time I > checked hurd was only availabel via AFS, has this changed already? Sorry, I thought I had posted this already. Gord, please get this info on the web an

Re: Helping out with debian/hurd

1998-11-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 01:23:50AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > Both organizations, SPI and GNU, serve free software in an excellent way. > > Both are sponsoring third party projects from time to time. > > A complication that comes up as s

Re: cross-dpkg problems

1998-11-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
From: Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 06 Nov 1998 12:20:15 -0600 Basically, dpkg is not suitable for cross-platform installations, because the --instroot option uses the chroot call, which breaks all the installation scripts (i.e. they see only Hurd binaries, rather

Re: cross-dpkg problems

1998-11-09 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Good News: > [...] > > ++ > | unpacked | > | The package is unpacked, but not configured. | > +

Re: cross-dpkg problems

1998-11-09 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
Hi! > Jules Bean writes: JB> --On Sat, Nov 7, 1998 5:53 pm +0100 "Marcus Brinkmann" JB> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> 3) They have some non-Hurd-based system, and a free partition (or >>> disk space for a subdir install). I'm very interested in >>> supporting this case, because the va