Hurd Orientation

2002-05-03 Thread Neal H Walfield
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Bug #144858

2002-05-03 Thread Jeff Bailey
I've just posted a followup patch to the gcc-3.0 packaging bug that generates an incorrect dependancy on libc0.3. I've fixed the package on alpha. I'm trying to avoid hackery like having a fake libc6-dev package. It shouldn't be needed and packages with bad dependancies are broken. If you're bu

Re: Bug#145714: python programmer needed (was: Re: Bug#145714: dpkg-shlibdeps doesn't work correctly on the Hurd

2002-05-03 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > This sounds like my patch would still be useful, for 1.10. 1.10 is basically frozen, I can't promise I will include it in there. Maybe in 1.10.1. Wichert. -- _ /[EMAIL PROTECTED] This

Re: fakeroot inquiry

2002-05-03 Thread James Morrison
--- Jeff Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 01:55:50PM +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > > > > Well, IMHO a good solution is to hack ext2fs to allow that. Maybe > > > with a special option and starting it dinamicaly with a "fakeroot" > > > script. I need to think about thi

Re: fakeroot inquiry

2002-05-03 Thread Roland McGrath
> I hope there's no hard reason for that. It ought to be possible to set > up some bridging (similar to what vmware does between host and guest os). > > But sure, that's a project for the future. Having the parent hurd > provide a "fake" device port for the subhurd to use, not giving it > direct ac

Re: fakeroot inquiry

2002-05-03 Thread Roland McGrath
> One problem in the context of Debian packaging is that some files want to be > owned by other user and/or groups than root, for example news/news, or > things like that. So? The uid-mapping would apply to isowner/rootness tests as well, so you could chown. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

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Re: Bug#145714: python programmer needed (was: Re: Bug#145714: dpkg-shlibdeps doesn't work correctly on the Hurd

2002-05-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 09:52:39PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Jeff Bailey wrote: > > Last I checked the dpkg-dev CVS worked correctly without changes. > > However, I asked in #debian-devel in December or so when we would be > > considering switching and got laughter in response. >

Re: Bug#145714: python programmer needed (was: Re: Bug#145714: dpkg-shlibdeps doesn't work correctly on the Hurd

2002-05-03 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Jeff Bailey wrote: > Last I checked the dpkg-dev CVS worked correctly without changes. > However, I asked in #debian-devel in December or so when we would be > considering switching and got laughter in response. Heh, laughter. Not the best reaction. > Will you be switching to the pytho

Re: python programmer needed (was: Re: Bug#145714: dpkg-shlibdeps doesn't work correctly on the Hurd

2002-05-03 Thread Jeff Bailey
Last I checked the dpkg-dev CVS worked correctly without changes. However, I asked in #debian-devel in December or so when we would be considering switching and got laughter in response. Will you be switching to the python version soon? We can work around this bug on the buildd and the people who

Re: python programmer needed (was: Re: Bug#145714: dpkg-shlibdeps doesn't work correctly on the Hurd

2002-05-03 Thread Grant Bowman
I'm missing something, when will the switch take place upstream? I see the old version here: cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/dpkg co dpkg and the python version here: cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/dpkg co dpkg-dev Cheers, -- -- Grant Bowman<[EMA

python programmer needed (was: Re: Bug#145714: dpkg-shlibdeps doesn't work correctly on the Hurd

2002-05-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, I am python illiterate. Can someone who isn't please pick this up? Thanks, Marcus On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 08:50:44PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Please provide a patch for the python version in dpkg-dev CVS instead, > I already told you that dpkg will switch to that. > > Wichert. > >

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps (was Re: Cannot install HURD: bsdutils missing)

2002-05-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 11:29:07AM -0700, Grant Bowman wrote: > * Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020503 11:14]: > > Yeah, uh, like a patch for dpkg-shlibdeps, which I will send to the > > BTS now. > > Excellent news, thanks very much for doing this important work! > It's at http://bugs.de

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps (was Re: Cannot install HURD: bsdutils missing)

2002-05-03 Thread Grant Bowman
* Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020503 11:14]: > Yeah, uh, like a patch for dpkg-shlibdeps, which I will send to the > BTS now. Excellent news, thanks very much for doing this important work! Cheers, -- -- Grant Bowman<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps (was Re: Cannot install HURD: bsdutils missing)

2002-05-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 11:06:10AM -0700, Grant Bowman wrote: > Marcus, > > Relax, I'm agreeing with you. You must have too much time on your hands > like I do at the moment. Actually not, that's why I didn't read Robert's mail carefully enough. > Please trust in the process, go write some > c

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps (was Re: Cannot install HURD: bsdutils missing)

2002-05-03 Thread Grant Bowman
Marcus, Relax, I'm agreeing with you. You must have too much time on your hands like I do at the moment. Please trust in the process, go write some code and let other people work out their own issues. -- -- Grant Bowman<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps (was Re: Cannot install HURD: bsdutils missing)

2002-05-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 12:51:12PM -0400, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > There is no logic in putting symlinks into all packages. > The whole purpose of having the usr symlink is for packages that install > into /usr. If we were going to change packages, they should not install > into /usr in the first

Re: fakeroot inquiry

2002-05-03 Thread Niels Möller
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, of course not. The main reason is that two Hurds (we don't call > them subhurds anywmore, they are more peer than parent/child, you might > call them neighbourhurd) are too isolated :) they are really two > distinct Hurd systems running in paral

Re: /usr -> . transition

2002-05-03 Thread Jordi Mallach
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 08:53:29AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > ifeq (hurd, $(DEB_BUILD_GNU_SYSTEM)) > prefix=/ > else > prefix=/usr > endif > > We could put it in debian/rules of all debian packages, starting > with the dh-make templates This is completely irreal. -- Jordi Mallach Pérez |

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps (was Re: Cannot install HURD: bsdutils missing)

2002-05-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 09:21:43AM -0700, Grant Bowman wrote: > * Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020503 08:37]: > > On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 09:01:12PM -0400, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > No. See > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2002/debian-dpkg-200204/msg00094.html > > > > I think th

Re: fakeroot inquiry

2002-05-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 04:55:59PM +0200, Niels M?ller wrote: > > 1) Subhurds suck for connecting to a network > > I hope there's no hard reason for that. It ought to be possible to set > up some bridging (similar to what vmware does between host and guest > os). No, of course not. The main reas

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps (was Re: Cannot install HURD: bsdutils missing)

2002-05-03 Thread Grant Bowman
* Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020503 08:37]: > On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 09:01:12PM -0400, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > No. See > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2002/debian-dpkg-200204/msg00094.html > > I think this problem needs to be fixed in the root, having a usr -> . > simlink on t

Re: fakeroot inquiry

2002-05-03 Thread Niels Möller
Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For building packages, you could just use a tmpfs with uid-mapping. > i.e. > $ settrans -ca my-pkg /hurd/tmpfs --map-uid=`whoami`:root > $ make install prefix=my-pkg > $ tar cf my-pkg.tar my-pkg > $ settrans -g my-pkg > $ r

Re: fakeroot inquiry

2002-05-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 09:13:57AM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote: > The unimplemented functions are the sysvipc interfaces (msgsnd/msgrcv et > al). They're not implemented. They would not be real hard to implement > and I won't get into to how to implement them, but there is almost never > any wort

Re: fakeroot inquiry

2002-05-03 Thread Niels Möller
Jeff Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) Subhurds suck for connecting to a network I hope there's no hard reason for that. It ought to be possible to set up some bridging (similar to what vmware does between host and guest os). But sure, that's a project for the future. Having the parent hur

Re: fakeroot inquiry

2002-05-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 07:37:43AM -0700, Jeff Bailey wrote: > On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 10:34:20AM -0400, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > 1) Subhurds suck for connecting to a network > > > A firmlink for servers/socket/2 works fine, though. > > I've done that for chroot jails - How do you do that

Re: fakeroot inquiry

2002-05-03 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 10:34:20AM -0400, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > 1) Subhurds suck for connecting to a network > A firmlink for servers/socket/2 works fine, though. I've done that for chroot jails - How do you do that across a subhurd? -- One of the great things about books is sometimes

Re: fakeroot inquiry

2002-05-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 06:43:29AM -0700, Jeff Bailey wrote: > 1) Subhurds suck for connecting to a network A firmlink for servers/socket/2 works fine, though. Thanks, Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /usr -> . transition

2002-05-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 08:53:29AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > Does anyone disagree with this? Yes, I do. > It might not be a definitive solution but it's something we need > to do sooner or later anyway. What do you think? We are certainly not putting an indefinitive solution into all package

Re: fakeroot inquiry

2002-05-03 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 01:55:50PM +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > > Well, IMHO a good solution is to hack ext2fs to allow that. Maybe > > with a special option and starting it dinamicaly with a "fakeroot" > > script. I need to think about this. > What is wrong with a sub-hurd? 1) Subhurds suck

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps (was Re: Cannot install HURD: bsdutils missing)

2002-05-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 06:39:30AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 09:01:12PM -0400, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > No. See > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2002/debian-dpkg-200204/msg00094.html > > > > I think this problem needs to be fixed in the root, having a us

Re: fakeroot inquiry

2002-05-03 Thread Roland McGrath
> What will it take to port fakeroot to the Hurd? I had never bothered to understand what fakeroot really did before now. Having looked at it tonight, I wish I had done something about it earlier. There are several answers, each one superceding the last. I'll give you them all in order, not beca

Re: fakeroot inquiry

2002-05-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, I am moving this thread to the bug-hurd list. Please only reply to that. On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 06:46:02AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > I was thinking of a hurdish alternative to fakeroot. What we need is > just a way of chown files to any user without having root proviledges. Well, we do

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps (was Re: Cannot install HURD: bsdutils missing)

2002-05-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 07:43:52PM -0700, Grant Bowman wrote: > I got the dpkg CVS code and patched it. I can't see how to wrap it with > a minimal amount of perl logic (an oxymoron?) to make it at least a > reasonble workaround to propose committing. There is no reasonable work around that invo

Re: fakeroot inquiry

2002-05-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 08:05:59AM -0400, Ryan M. Golbeck wrote: > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I was thinking of a hurdish alternative to fakeroot. What we need is > > just a way of chown files to any user without having root proviledges. > > I don't think being able to chown

Re: fakeroot inquiry

2002-05-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 01:55:50PM +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > > > I was thinking of a hurdish alternative to fakeroot. What we need is > > just a way of chown files to any user without having root > > proviledges. > > > Well, IMHO a good solution is to hack ext2fs to allow that. Maybe > > w

Re: fakeroot inquiry

2002-05-03 Thread Ryan M. Golbeck
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was thinking of a hurdish alternative to fakeroot. What we need is > just a way of chown files to any user without having root proviledges. I don't think being able to chown files to any user is a good idea. Think about filling up someone's disk quota

Re: fakeroot inquiry

2002-05-03 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
* Robert Millan writes: > On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 10:52:01PM -0700, Grant Bowman wrote: >> What will it take to port fakeroot to the Hurd? (he asks nievely) >> >> When I tried to compile it it failed while testing itself with an >> error about unimplemented message function. I can duplicate it i

/usr -> . transition

2002-05-03 Thread Robert Millan
Hello, Does anyone disagree with this? # Install on / instead of /usr when on GNU DEB_BUILD_GNU_SYSTEM ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_GNU_SYSTEM) ifeq (hurd, $(DEB_BUILD_GNU_SYSTEM)) prefix=/ else prefix=/usr endif We could put it in debian/rules of all debian packages, starting

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Re: fakeroot inquiry

2002-05-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 10:52:01PM -0700, Grant Bowman wrote: > What will it take to port fakeroot to the Hurd? > (he asks nievely) > > When I tried to compile it it failed while testing itself with an error > about unimplemented message function. I can duplicate it if necessary. I was thinking

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps (was Re: Cannot install HURD: bsdutils missing)

2002-05-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 09:01:12PM -0400, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > No. See > http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2002/debian-dpkg-200204/msg00094.html > I think this problem needs to be fixed in the root, having a usr -> . simlink on the DESTDIR of every debian package when it's being built o

fakeroot inquiry

2002-05-03 Thread Grant Bowman
What will it take to port fakeroot to the Hurd? (he asks nievely) When I tried to compile it it failed while testing itself with an error about unimplemented message function. I can duplicate it if necessary. Thanks, -- -- Grant Bowman<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --