Re: [Soc-coordination] Debian-installer on Debian GNU/Hurd as a GSoC project

[Jérémie Koenig <jk@jk.fr.eu.org>]

Hello,

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> wrote:
> Jérémie Koenig, le Fri 19 Mar 2010 01:28:59 +0100, a écrit :
>> (...)
>> Maybe you could send me your patch so I can start from there / polish them ?
>
> As mentioned in the proposal it's along the rest of my d-i work in
> http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/

Thanks for the link, sorry I missed it.

I just wanted to report that I have a series of "clean" patches
against the upstream busybox git repository which make it build on the
Hurd with the attached minimal config (which is debian/config/udeb,
minus ip, route, free, klogd, mount, swaponoff and pivot_root I
think.)

In my excitement I have already submitted them upstream [1] for
review, though on second thought I understand that posting them here
first would have been more appropriate, especially since you had
already started working on this.

[1] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-March/071942.html

Anyway, my plan right now would be:
  * port more applets
  * modify the Debian package to allow arch-specific .config files/overrides,
  * submit the whole lot as a wishlist bug against busybox and discuss
it on debian-boot

Does this sound like a reasonable course of action?

-- 
Jérémie Koenig <jk@jk.fr.eu.org>
http://jk.fr.eu.org/