I was trying to make a hurd busybox package the other day, but i got
stuck trying to workout how to change the Makefile so it does different
steps if its compiling for the Hurd or Linux.
I was going to do this
ifeq ($(strip $(shell uname)),Linux)
LIBBB_CSRC+= interface.c module_syscalls.c sysca
Neal H Walfield wrote:
>
> > The boot-floppies currently and most likely for woody also uses
> > libfdisk, its a small (20K) partitioning program. (see
> > http://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/utilities/libfdisk/ )
>
> Is this still the plan? Or is it libparted now?
>
The plan (as far as i know
> On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:04:33AM -0400, Russell Francis wrote:
> > I am rather new to the list but, if you are thinking of new ways to
> > package and distribute a shiny new Hurd system I have a suggestion.
> > I used to use FreeBSD and I absolutely loved the ports collection!
> > You simply
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 07:56:46AM -0700, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:04:33AM -0400, Russell Francis wrote:
>
> > I am rather new to the list but, if you are thinking of new ways to
> > package and distribute a shiny new Hurd system I have a suggestion.
> > I used to use FreeBS
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 05:53:52PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> First step is to port the Debian package of rpm and check if cpio and alien
> do work on the Hurd (they should).
I added popt to turtle1 this morning, which is a pre-depend of rpm.
rpm didn't build, however. I don't actually car
I have written up a FAQ; I am interested in feedback and contributions:
http://web.walfield.org/papers/hurd-faq/FAQ
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> The boot-floppies currently and most likely for woody also uses
> libfdisk, its a small (20K) partitioning program. (see
> http://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/utilities/libfdisk/ )
Is this still the plan? Or is it libparted now?
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First post!
[snap]
> Well, I had only been using RPM-based Linux distibutions before I tried
out
> the Hurd, so I can understand how dpkg can seem confusing to you at first.
> OTOH, if you keep on learning how to use it, I think you will find that
> there isn't anything that makes rpm better than p
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:24:32PM -0400, Russell Francis wrote:
> > 2 things:
> >
> > 1) In what way would it benefit?
> [a BSD style ports/system collection/release]
>
> Linux seems to be a loosly knit collection of different packages where BSD
> seems to be a complete system.
Linux is just
> 2 things:
>
> 1) In what way would it benefit?
[a BSD style ports/system collection/release]
Linux seems to be a loosly knit collection of different packages where BSD
seems to be a complete system.
ex: To upgrade your Linux kernel you have to download the kernel, read the
Documentation/Cha
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:29:59AM +0200, Andreas L. Gustafsson wrote:
>
> OK, I have often read that getting Hurd to run on top of many different
> microkernels is one main goal. I guess it is still focused on mach
> then? Probably a good at idea at this time.
>
There is (was?) an effort to get
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 09:59:33AM -0700, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 06:51:29PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
>
> > > netpbm-free is broken based on turtle's bad handling of ':'. I
> > >will force all of these through by hand. (Maybe in time for
> > >today's update...)
>
> >
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 01:02:01AM -0700, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> I've got the cyrus-sasl package built, with the patch no prob.
>
> openldap2 appears to have a series of problems:
>
> 1) it doesn't run autoconf after it patches configure.in
> 2) when I run autoconf by hand it triggers the empty-./c
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:12:26AM +0200, Andreas L. Gustafsson wrote:
> But of course not! It's never easy to start a new distrobution. I just
> found the idea interesting. I don't know .deb but I know rpm and Solaris
> pkgadd and I'd like to use them. If someone else hav had the same thought,
> p
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:19:43AM +0200, Andreas L. Gustafsson wrote:
> After getting the link mailed me I now see I must have been blind not to
> find it earlier. But, considering that there's first a row of buttons,
> blue on red, and then another row of choices which are, almost but not
> reall
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 07:57:52AM +0200, Henning Riedel wrote:
> So either I missed some driver to enable, or I did maybe the wrong MAKEDEV?
> Since the kernel boots that fast, the messages are gone before I catch up.
> Is there some kind of kernel-message logging at boottime like dmesg under
> Li
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 02:36:22PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > zlib: EIO from tar? Wat's that? And how does this rcmd come into the game?
> > What is rcmd? This looks very suspicious.
>
> rcmd is the libc function that does the client side of the rsh protocol.
> tar uses this for rmt. If yo
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 08:00:21AM +0100, Neil Levine wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 01:36:00AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann a ecrit:
> > >
> > > Thanks. Is there any reason why this works as root but not as a
> > > regular user?
> >
> > If you attempt to run a suid binary (check with ls -l), then
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 01:00:47PM -0700, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> Is there a copy of the ELF standard publicly available?
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 08:37:08AM -0500, Jonathan Bartlett wrote:
> Is there an "easy guide to ELF" which explains all this stuff?
I don't know the answer to either question. I
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:04:33AM -0400, Russell Francis wrote:
> I am rather new to the list but, if you are thinking of new ways to
> package and distribute a shiny new Hurd system I have a suggestion.
> I used to use FreeBSD and I absolutely loved the ports collection!
> You simply change to t
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:04:33AM -0400, Russell Francis wrote:
> I am rather new to the list but, if you are thinking of new ways to
> package and distribute a shiny new Hurd system I have a suggestion.
> I used to use FreeBSD and I absolutely loved the ports collection!
> You simply change to
> -Original Message-
> From: Russell Francis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 4:05 PM
> To: Andreas L. Gustafsson
> Cc: Robert Bihlmeyer; debian-hurd@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Hurd F1 ISO and booting
>
>
> > > > Seriously, I do think that to make Hurd more
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> It isn't for lack of trying. =(
This is appreciated. We survived F1 without it and we can survive F2 just
as well.
> good night!
Sleep well.
Phil.
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> > > Seriously, I do think that to make Hurd more popular and more widely used
> > > we need to move away from the .deb way only as fast as possible.
> >
> > What Farid said: nobody stops anybody from doing things differently.
>
> Nope, and if I learn how to do it, I might try.
>
> > > The most
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 05:19:08AM +, Philip Charles wrote:
> Need I say more?
>
> I should be ready to freeze the Hurd sub-archive within the next 24 hours
> and I would like to include a working exim. Is there a working package
> somewhere that I could download?
It isn't for lack of trying
On 29 Apr 2001, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> "Andreas L. Gustafsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Huh!? Is there two different kernels available?
>
> Yes, GNU Mach and oskit Mach. Debian GNU/Hurd will install the former.
> I don't think there deb packages for oskit mach, you'll have to roll
>
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 01:43:28PM +0200, Andreas L. Gustafsson wrote:
> > Huh!? Is there two different kernels available? I think Uhurd has a big
> > documentation problme. This ought to be mentioned on some webpage.
> >
> > What is diffrent? Which
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 01:43:28PM +0200, Andreas L. Gustafsson wrote:
>
> > I for one just hate dpkg and friends! :)
> >
> > If I just can get gcc to work under Hurd I'll be happy again! :)
> >
> > Seriously, I do think that to make Hurd more popular a
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Philip Charles wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Andreas L. Gustafsson wrote:
>
> > F1 F2 E1? Where do I find these ISO images? I can't find any links to it
> > from the Debian/Hurd ports page. There are just a link telling about it's
> > in "active development". Time to update t
Need I say more?
I should be ready to freeze the Hurd sub-archive within the next 24 hours
and I would like to include a working exim. Is there a working package
somewhere that I could download?
Phil.
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Mobile 025 267 9420
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