Re: New packages and cross-config.gnu
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 01:08:06 +0100
From: Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Uiuiuiui. Maybe people should not install those packages currently. Or if
they do, please backup the hurd versions of those binaries.
shellutils: uptime is not included in the package (under Debian, it is
provided by procps, which is linux specific)
su is indeed in the package. I will remove it and upload a new
version.
fileutils: Yes, sync is included. I will remove it and upload a new version.
Great!
Thanks for your report, (btw, can't the sources be merged or so?)
I assume you mean adding Hurd support to shellutils/fileutils. Well I
don't think that's appropriate. `su' is a totally different beast on
the Hurd, and much more powerful. BTW, keep in mind that you can't do
`su -c COMMAND' to execute COMMAND as root, I don't know if any debian
scripts use this. `uptime' comes almost for free (it is a shell
script that calls `w -u'. `sync' is an almost trivial program, but
including it in fileutils would mean we lose the nice `argp' parsing.
I will ask Jim Meyering if it is possible to not install the programs
on the Hurd.
Mark
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