Re: apt-get on the hurd
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> We don't know if your fixes work on the Hurd, as nobody who has a Hurd
> to test has seen the fixes (unless you tested them on the Hurd yourself).
The fix is there, if it does not work one of you guys can patch that one
thing. Jason M. Felice is trying to test it.
> I checked people.debian.org/~jgg/apt/, but there is no recent source.
> You can send the fixes to debian-hurd-i386 and someone will test them.
It is in CVS, as always.
> You also didn't tell me what you think of the trailing slash issues, I never
> received an answer to my mail, so we don't know if this is fixed or not.
Mmm, I may have lost that one.
> There is also the issue i386-gnu0.2 vs i386-gnu, and I am pessimistic about
> whether this is fixed in APT 4 or not, as I am not sure if you are aware of
This was accounted for, I knew about it.
> reports it (correctly) as i386-gnu0.2, and the old apt as well as any dpkg
> don't get this right (this is also an issue on some BSD platforms).
I handle the BSDs too.
Jason
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