Re: [rms@santafe.edu: Hurd packager]

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com> wrote:
> It doesn't look like it would be too hard to get dpkg going on it.
> Most of the other GNU tools are already there.

To get dpkg going, you need perl5.004, gettext, autoconf and automake.
[you'd need more if you were going to get dselect and the documentation
to build, but you don't need that right away.]

Once you have dpkg built, and its executables installed, it's pretty
simple to pull down the base packages (everything on ftp.debian.org
or one of its mirrors for pub/debian/dists/hamm/main/source/base/).
The easy part is:

for x in *dsc; do dpkg-source -x $x; done
for d in */; do (cd $d; chmod +x debian/rules; nohup debian/rules build) done

[then you fix any problems that prevented you from building everything.]

The easy way of building the packages is

for d in */; do (cd $d; nohup debian/rules binary) done

If I recall correctly, there's a package around to build the base disks
from these packages, but I'm still not sure if that's a problem that
needs to be solved.

-- 
Raul


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