Re: first draft "aptitude howto"
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 08:45:37PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
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> On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Daniel Burrows wrote:
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> > On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 02:33:43AM -0500, Branden Robinson was heard to say:
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> > Well, actually, last I heard apt didn't even compile on the Hurd (or BSD)
> > without a nontrivial amount of work. So this is currently accurate :-)
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> Hm? It works entirely on HURD, but I think they might have a few changes..
> It compiles on OpenBSD, Solaris and HP-UX and passes a few simple tests.
> It also compiles on evey single arch (save ia64, their compiler is
> screwed) that Debian supports.
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> Jason
Hi,
This is not correct. apt 0.1.9 is the latest version ported to the hurd.
Additionally, only ftp mode (currently) works.
-Neal
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