Hello, On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 3:55 AM Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@gnu.org> wrote: > With the available .debs you should now be able to enable these.
I'm afraid I'm going to need more guidance here. Your little tutorial in readme [0] is helpful (thank you!), but I still have questions. [0]: https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/tmp/hurd-amd64/README.txt I can't just install packages by reconfiguring apt and installing them directly as you suggest, because that assumes a working Debian installation -- naturally, one for a different architecture, and one that these new packages would break. Maybe I'm supposed to use the apt flags which tell it to operate on a chroot? I've tried apt -o RootDir=/path/to/chroot/ -o Architecture=hurd-amd64 install hurd/sid-sthibault (with the 'deb ...' line in /etc/apt/sources.list inside the otherwise empty chroot) to no avail. I've tried debootstrap, but that errors out at "Can't verify that target arch works" -- apparently usr/bin/arch-test does not recognize hurd-amd64. The way to disable that check appears to be --foreign; but I wasn't (yet) able to get that working either. If you are using debootstrap and it works for you, perhaps you could share a known-good debootstrap incantation? I could try to just extract some packages using your 'dpkg-deb -x' tip, but I would still like for apt/dpkg to figure out the dependencies for me, and generally automate as much of the process as possible. Sergey
