Hurd SMP (lack of) progress report.

2001-04-25 Thread B. Douglas Hilton
Well, I'm hooked up with Cable-Modem internet now though... Yippee! I have been very busy playing QuakeForge Team Fortress, you know, uh, debugging it and stuff :-) I have successfully compiled OSkit for Hurd and Linux, but am stumped with oskit-mach. In both Linux-i386-gnu and native Hurd it

Re: cross-apt

2001-04-25 Thread Brian May
Jeff == Jeff Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeff Is there a reasonable way under Debian to do cross-apts? A Jeff friend of mine has a laptop with a winmodem, (so no PPP Jeff available, network card is a pc-card), but he wants to play. Jeff His main system is a Debian unstable,

Re: Hurd SMP (lack of) progress report.

2001-04-25 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:59:51AM -0400, B. Douglas Hilton wrote: Well, I'm hooked up with Cable-Modem internet now though... Yippee! I have been very busy playing QuakeForge Team Fortress, you know, uh, debugging it and stuff :-) I have successfully compiled OSkit for Hurd and Linux, but

Re: cross-apt

2001-04-25 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Ian Duggan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been trying to figure this out as well, as apt under hurd hangs for me about 50% of the time. Was the same here, until I trimmed my sources.list to an absolute minimum. The apt-crash went from 70 % reproducability to 0 %. Adding more swap may also

Re: cross-apt

2001-04-25 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:58:27PM +1000, Brian May wrote: Jeff == Jeff Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeff Is there a reasonable way under Debian to do cross-apts? A Jeff friend of mine has a laptop with a winmodem, (so no PPP Jeff available, network card is a pc-card), but

reassign bash bugs to hurd

2001-04-25 Thread Matthias Klose
reassign 71777 hurd reassign 71778 hurd thanks I am unable to test these. Please could someone of the hurd team check these? Thanks, Matthias

Re: ldconfig

2001-04-25 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Use of ldconfig is not portable. We should not encourage maintainers into Linux specific programming. Ok. This, and especially that libtool can do them, has convinced me. That's an idea. Can you submit it as a bug report against libc0.2 (or

2nd hd

2001-04-25 Thread Remy Saville
Is it possible to boot HURD off a 2nd hd? My fiancee and myself share a single computer for now and I really want to leave the first hard drive completely alone to give me extra protection against doing something to lose our data.

Re: 2nd hd

2001-04-25 Thread Roland McGrath
Is it possible to boot HURD off a 2nd hd? Sure. The Hurd is booted by GRUB, which can load kernels from any disk accessible by the BIOS interface. To get GRUB booted, you might need to put it on the first disk if you don't want to use a boot floppy. Look at the GRUB documentation.

official to do list

2001-04-25 Thread Remy Saville
I'm not ready for kernel hacking yet, but I'm ready to start looking for something trival to try to get going. As I understand it most of the Debian Linux packages don't compile on HURD? So I should just grab the source to an interesting Linux package and try making adjustments to allow it to

Re: official to do list

2001-04-25 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 02:24:08PM -0700, Remy Saville wrote: I'm not ready for kernel hacking yet, but I'm ready to start looking for something trival to try to get going. As I understand it most of the Debian Linux packages don't compile on HURD? So I should just grab the source to an

Re: official to do list

2001-04-25 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 02:24:08PM -0700, Remy Saville wrote: I'm not ready for kernel hacking yet, but I'm ready to start looking for something trival to try to get going. As I understand it most of the Debian Linux packages don't compile on HURD? Fact is we don't know. I'd guess that of

Re: ldconfig

2001-04-25 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 08:11:08PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: That's an idea. Can you submit it as a bug report against libc0.2 (or whatever contains ldconfig now)? I've expanded the script a bit, so that ldconfig -X and the like still silently succeeds, and put in a --help message

Re: cross-apt

2001-04-25 Thread Brian May
Marcus == Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marcus I filed a wishlist item against dpkg for a Marcus --do-not-run-postinst-and-presinst-scripts option long Marcus time ago, but never got a response on it. It would be Marcus truly useful. It would make dpkg-hurd completely