On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 11:54:16PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > hi there, > > are there any plans on providing Debian NetBSD with the BSD userland? > > and wrt Debian GNU/NetBSD... is it ready to be deployed on servers, or > is it still in a rather experimental phase? > > thanks, The latest updates, at least as far as I know them: Debian/NetBSD runs with NetBSD kernel, NetBSD libc, and *mostly* a Debian userland. It is intended to run with an entirely Debian userland except for pieces of it (such as ldd) that derive from the libc package. At this time, I at least have no intent of bothering with the NetBSD userland; basically everything in it is already available in one or another Debian package. If I wanted NetBSD kernel, libc, and userland, all that would be left would be a 'debianized' install area for various software packages, which could more easily be done by compiling dpkg in native mode and using it with chroot arguments. Matthew Garrett currently has hacked up install disks working for the port, while I'm still working in a chroot environment for the moment (trying to get SysV init, shadow, and a few other things compiling cleanly out of the box, plus create proper source packages for the kernel and libc , before I convert the box entirely off of the NetBSD partition). I can provide a tarball of my working chroot as it stands, if you want it; apt works, dpkg works, X works, and a number of userland things are quite operable. Still working on what will be needed for a proper base.tgz so we can debootstrap things (and thus use pbuilder). So, to summarize... it is well beyond the "merely experimental", and in a state where it can be used to compile most of what is needed for itself, but it is not yet to the point where one can simply fire off an install and walk away (or even sit there until the end, and end up with a fully useable Debian system - yet). -- *************************************************************************** Joel Baker System Administrator - lightbearer.com lucifer@lightbearer.com http://users.lightbearer.com/lucifer/
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