On May 29, 2023 8:34:00 PM GMT+02:00, Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> wrote: >Hello, > >Amos Jeffries, le mar. 30 mai 2023 04:59:45 +1200, a ecrit: >> I picked crosshurd to do the bootstrap process. >> >> crosshurd -t /src/hurd/deb-crosshurd/hurd64 -s gnu -c x86_64 -d unstable >> >> Initially it reveals that Debian ports has no packages yet (sad, but oh >> well). > >As mentioned on bug-hurd, since the ABI isn't really stable yet I prefer >not to upload packages there yet. > >> After patching crosshurd/sources.list to allow it to use Simons' temporary >> repo: >> https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/tmp/hurd-amd64 >> (along with the necessary key registration for apt) >> >> The output becomes: >> >> E: Package 'isc-dhcp-client' has no installation candidate >> E: Package 'gettext-base' has no installation candidate >> E: Package 'info' has no installation candidate >> E: Unable to locate package cardmgr-gnumach >> E: Unable to locate package wireless-tools-gnumach > >Yes, these are not available yet. Help is welcome on fixing the build of >isc-dhcp and gettext in hurd-i386, and they'll probably just build on >hurd-amd64 as well. > >Concerning texinfo, it seems that the packaging doesn't support >cross-building yet since it generates documentation with its >just-compiled (cross)-built makedoc, even with -B. Contribution will be >welcome for general cross-buildability. > >Concerning cardmgr-gnumach and wireless-tools-gnumach, these are >probably not worth spending time since they are mostly outdated. I have >now removed them in the crosshurd repo. > >That said you can already just comment them by hand from your >/etc/crosshurd/packages/ > >And also, you can as well just follow the wiki-documented debootstrap
Was the second-stage hapenned to work. >method >https://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/open_issues/64-bit_port/ >which does build fine since it uses a reduced set of packages (and cares >much less about installability). > >... or simply the prebuilt image from > >https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/initrd-amd64.img.gz > >Samuel > Hello,
