Nathan Myers wrote: > "Now(tm)" would be a good time. Anybody with a Summer Vacation can > go ahead and start packaging things Right Now. There's no need for > more talk; it's clear what has to happen, and either somebody just > does it, or the project will have to be considered vaporware again. > > To get started: if you don't have NetBSD, install a minimal system. > It's easy. > > Start Debianizing core BSD kernel-related packages. Port dpkg, apt, > and the package build tools. Start replacing raw binaries by unpacking > your Debianized versions. Phase 1 is complete when all the binaries > in the minimal system were unpacked from .deb files. > > For Phase 2, port the Debain installer. For phase 3, start building > non-kernel-related Debian packages for the system, patching as you go. > (Phase 3 is never done.) > > Don't worry about duplicating somebody else's work; the best of both > will end up used, and at worst you'll learn a lot. There's no need to > decide whether to use BSD libc or GNU libc; if you want to try porting > GNU libc, just go ahead. If you do a good job your work will be used, > and adopted into the upstream package; the GNU libc project welcomes > ports. Debian GNU/BSD can use as many libc's as there are. (Cygnus > newlib might be a good idea too.)
Again, I'll offer to do porting work as soon as anyone can offer me a remote login on a box to work on. Unfortunately, I don't have any spare hardware I can toss NetBSD on (having ditched most of it during my last move), and I'm not really in a position to run out and buy more just for this project :/ -- *************************************************************************** Joel Baker System Administrator - lightbearer.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lightbearer.com/~lucifer
