Re: Making an apt-able GNU/Hurd CDROM
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> The next version of apt should be fine. The archive at alpha.gnu.org is only
> meant for temporary uploads for the impatient and for testing. Currently,
> there is dpkg (doesn't build from source, am waiting for the CVS version to
> be released), util-linux (hackery-hack), apt (only small issues, will be
> fine soon), X 3.3.6 (big mess, 4.0.1 was worked on in the meanwhile, but
> changes are not incorporated).
>
> I think the X situation will only change dramatically when Branden releases
> his 4.0.1 packages (which hopefully have the patches I sent him by then).
> util-linux is a bad little boy: Nobody wants to port it properly and send
> the changes back to the maintainer. It isn't hard, but the current Makefiles
> are simply crap, that's why. dpkg CVS version is partially broken, so it is
> not going to be released soon. I could backport my changes, but I am more
> currently interested to work on other, original stuff.
>
The easiest way around this would be to include alpha.gnu.org as a local
file system and ammend the exclusion list accordingly.
Phil.
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