On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 02:01:50PM +0000, M.C. Vernon wrote: > > Dear Marcus (et al), > > a couple of quickies re the new packages: > > do they have the mach terminfo installed in the terminfo database? > will they support non-shadow password checking? I got this working on my > (old) hurd, using a recompiled libcrypt supplied by someone else, but that > was with an old glibc.... > > And do I need to makedev for all my disks, or do the new packages include > the most common ones?
yes,yes and no. Creating devices in the tar file wouln't work, because they are _translators_ in the Hurd filesystem, something tar doesn't know about. Thanks, Marcus PS: saw you other mail :) -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
