Re: NCFTP package

[Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu>]

On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 10:44:31PM +0000, Ashutosh S. Rajekar was heard to say:
> Hello Marcus,
> 
> On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> 
> > I use the last Debian source release for most packages, because I have them
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> > on CD. 70-100 USD are enough $$$ to pay for my modem connection.
> > 
> 	Does this mean that we can use the .debs distributed with the
> Debian/Linux CD with the Hurd ? I tried that and got a number of conflicts:
> bash-2.02 conflicts with libreadline2 and locales ... (Debian-2.0 binary 
> release from CheapBytes).

  It means that you can run 'dpkg-source -x' on the *source packages* and get
a source tree out, then run 'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b' and pray that it
compiles :-)

  A few binary packages (data and so on) will work correctly but pretty much
everything that's Arch: i386 (and I believe some things that are Arch: all)
will at best not work on the Hurd -- and at worst break things!  (I can't
remember any examples of breakage from Arch: all packages but I'm pretty
sure there are some)

  Daniel

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