Re: Revised TODO
On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 03:42:31PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> This is what we have on the website:
>
> any of the libs in /lib or /usr/lib that aren't currently packaged need to
> be
>
> (still needs doing)
>
> base-passwd is desperately unhappy
>
> (seems happy now)
>
> equivilents of console-tools/data need to be produced
>
> (still needs doing)
>
> netbase needs to be rebuilt. This is probably one of the more
> awkward ones - we have source for the BSD versions of ifconfig et al, but
> the semantics are somewhat different. If we stick with BSD semantics, we
> have to deal with any scripts that assume Linux-style semantics. Does HURD
> follow Linux-style semantics, and if not how have they dealt with this?
>
> (still needs doing)
>
> procps (probably best to just provide the BSD versions)
>
> (still needs doing)
>
> shadow (sort of working, but NetBSD has interesting binary files for
> dealing with passwords. As a result, stuff like passwd and adduser are not
> currently as useful as they could be. Somebody needs to look into this)
>
> (other than group stuff, seems to be working)
>
> sysklogd
>
> (still needs doing)
>
> sysvinit (BSD init doesn't support runlevels. We can hack it to work
> like Debian with a single runlevel without too much trouble)
>
> (still needs doing)
>
> Anything else need adding/updating?
Packaging tool for the BSD kernel, kernel-tools, and libc.
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