Re: My status report

1998-11-16 Thread Mark Kettenis
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 13:57:52 -0500 (EST) From: Ed Boraas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Perl _is_ important. Many Debian scripts are written in perl. Perl5 binaries are included in the GNU 0.2 distribution, so it couldn't be too awfully broken. I'll check that out sometime after i get hom

Re: My status report

1998-11-16 Thread Ed Boraas
On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: >On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 03:35:54PM -0500, Ed Boraas wrote: >> I have a fully functional native gcc-2.7 on my hurd partition with which >> to work. Will the deb tools compile on hurd at this stage? > >Yes, but not out of the box. > >> If not, what's bro

Re: Hurd won't boot :(

1998-11-16 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: > and I get this error: > > filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x63 > > (which IIRC is the hurd type) Please use an ordinary ext2 filesystem (type 83). You may format it using mke2fs -o hurd or change the owner afterwards by using the e2os utility.

Re: cross-dpkg problems

1998-11-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 10:13:07AM -0500, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > >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 br

Re: cross-dpkg problems

1998-11-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 10:50:05PM -0600, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: > > This is also useful so that people with non-Debian systems can get > involved with cross-compiling. You don't need a fully dpkg-managed > Hurd platform to be able to cross-compile .debs. Well, you need dpkg and friends to bui

Re: problem installing deb packages

1998-11-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, sorry for the delay, somehow this message "slipped through", and I didn't notice it until now. On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 02:24:30PM -0600, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: > >> In order to run dpkg, I had to create the tree var/lib/dpkg under > >> the Hurd root partition, and some empty files under