On 18/03/2008, Samuel Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michal Suchanek, le Tue 18 Mar 2008 13:15:27 +0100, a écrit : > > > > Debian doesn't wait for non-official architectures to catch up. > > > > They do delete Hurd packages when there are no new ones to replace > > them? > > > No, but they do delete _all packages when there are new ones to replace > them, even if the _hurd rdeps are not compiled yet. > > > > > > Can't there be a server with a Hurd repository that archives enough of > > > > core packages to allow building a Hurd system out of these? > > > > > > > > > The problem is to determine automatically what has to be kept. > > > > Everything. There aren't that many packages for the Hurd. > > > There are currently ~3600 packages installed. Plus the _all packages... > Keeping all the versions is quite some disk space.
Not all versions, the latest that can be installed, theoretically. Which means it has to include the _all rdeps. If that's too much just select something like x11-desktop which has to be installable if an usable demo system is to be created, and track only that + dependencies. > > > > Plus keep all versions of packages on some "hurd-core" list until > > somebody manually marks a newer version as verified working. > > > It's not necessarily so simple, you need to check all the rdeps etc. But checking rdeps can be automated, and it's supposedly already working for the Debian archive. Thanks Michal
