Previously Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > * #68783: dpkg should call exec with full path in argv[0] > STRATEGY: Includes a working patch which shows what has to be done. > REASON: Prevents configuration of debconf, which a lot of packages depend > on, screwing up even the most basic installations.
I still consider this a bug in HURD, but I'll add the workaround. > * #31620: dpkg: don't use hard coded ENOENT > STRATEGY: Use Errno.pm ENOENT which is in perl-5.005-base. > [See also fixed bug report #47204, but note that perl-5.6 gets it wrong > again!!! I am reopening it and reassigning to perl-5.6-base.] > REASON: We have thread based errno's, which are different (in the upper > bits). Is POSIX::ENOENT finally in perl-base now? I've seen 2 or 3 promised for that to happen but never any action afaik. > * #76941: dpkg: [hurd] configure gets the architecture wrong > STRATEGY: Loosen pattern matching against archtable. > REASON: Gnu config.guess is i386-gnu0.2, which doesn't match i386-gnu. > This prevents any native build. A quick peek in configure.in shows no pattern matching code at all.. > Versioned conflicts (depends) match (not) against provides, screwing up some > work arounds which we use to fool packages into thinking that we have the > linux packages installed (shellutils depends on login, which we don't have. > This screws up basic installs. Known problem, will be fixed once Ben debugs his verprov patches. > linux-all, you know it ;) Package pools make that easier even Wichert. -- _________________________________________________________________ / Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
