Re: cross-apt

To: debian-hurd@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: cross-apt
From: Brian May <bam@debian.org>
Date: 25 Apr 2001 15:58:27 +1000
Message-id: <84vgntcygs.fsf@snoopy.apana.org.au>
In-reply-to: <20010424161021.B10693@nisa.net>
References: <20010424161021.B10693@nisa.net>

>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Bailey <jbailey@nisa.net> writes:

    Jeff> Is there a reasonable way under Debian to do cross-apts?  A
    Jeff> friend of mine has a laptop with a winmodem, (so no PPP
    Jeff> available, network card is a pc-card), but he wants to play.
    Jeff> His main system is a Debian unstable, so I'm hoping there's
    Jeff> a way to do apt-get --root=/hurd --system=hurd-i386 install
    Jeff> foo

Is

chroot /hurd
apt-get install foo

insufficient for your needs? (note: you are going to have some
problems with installing hurd stuff on a Linux system no matter what
you do... Think of postinst scripts that call binary programs...).
-- 
Brian May <bam@debian.org>

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  - From: Jeff Bailey <jbailey@nisa.net>

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