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Re: Trying to build the Hurd



Hello Kapil

Many thanks.  I have saved this script and will try it soon.

Chris


Kapil H. Paranjape wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Chris Lingard writes:
>  > It fails trying to build the documentation, and wants package
>  > tetex.  The problem is that tetex depends on dpkg-perl,  and I cannot
>  > find this anywhere in the Package index, or in the binary directories. I
>  > have built TeX on several UNIX boxes so may try this next.
>
> The package dpkg-perl is in debian/dists/potato/binary-all/devel
>
> Since this is binary-all it can be installed on the hurd without need
> for any compilation.
>
> By the way tetex-bin_1.0.6-1 builds on hurd. The 'dpkg-buildpackage
> -uc -B' method did not work for me but
>         debian/rules build 'dpkg-architecture'
>         debian/rules binary 'dpkg-architecture'
> did work.
>
>  > Can I just tar my hurd partition, in Debian, so as to recover it
>  > later;
>
> I don't think so. I too had to duplicate the hurd partition (to shift
> it) and the procedure seems to be complicated (correct me if I am
> wrong please Marcus).
>
> 1. Copy (or (Tar and untar) all the directories *except* /servers and /dev
>    Basically any directory with translator nodes---I don't think tar/cp can
>    deal with these properly.
>
> 2. create the directory /servers, /servers/socket and the file
>    /servers/exec for example (from the cross-install script):
>
>         install -d -m 755 -o root -g root ${dest}/servers/socket
>         touch ${dest}/servers/exec
>
> 3. Boot the hurd single user and run a part of the native-install
>    script (example given below). The boot the hurd part could be
>    avoided one has a "settrans" under Linux. Roland posted a
>    "showtrans" and I have not got around to modifying it to do a
>    settrans.
>
>         # A truncated native-install
>         echo I am just checking if your filesystem is really writeable.
>         fsysopts / --writable
>
>         # Set up standard passive translators
>
>         /bin/settrans -c /servers/socket/1 /hurd/pflocal
>         /bin/settrans -c /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet
>         /bin/settrans -k /servers/exec /hurd/exec
>         /bin/settrans -c /servers/crash-suspend /hurd/crash --suspend
>         /bin/settrans -c /servers/crash-kill /hurd/crash --kill
>         /bin/settrans -c /servers/password /hurd/password
>
>         # Not functional yet:
>         /bin/settrans -c /servers/crash-dump-core /hurd/crash --dump-core
>         if [ ! -e /servers/crash ] ; then
>                 /bin/ln -s crash-suspend /servers/crash
>         fi
>         if [ ! -e /servers/socket/local ] ; then
>                 /bin/ln -s 1 /servers/socket/local
>         fi
>         if [ ! -e /servers/socket/inet ] ; then
>                 /bin/ln -s 2 /servers/socket/inet
>         fi
>
>         # We need /dev/fd to call scripts.
>         cd /dev
>         /bin/sh ./MAKEDEV -v fd
>
>         # Setup crucial devices
>         echo
>         echo The next job is to setup device files.
>         cd /dev
>         /bin/sh ./MAKEDEV -v std ptyp ptyq
>
>         fstype=`fsysopts / | perl -ne 'm!^/hurd/(.*?)\.static.*?([^\s]*?)$!; print $1;'`
>         rootpart=`fsysopts / | perl -ne 'm!^/hurd/(.*?)\.static.*?([^\s]*?)$!; print $2;'`
>
>         if [ ! -e /dev/${rootpart} ] ; then
>                 cd /dev
>                 /bin/sh ./MAKEDEV ${rootpart} || true
>         fi
>
>         if [ x${fstype} = xext2fs ] ; then
>                 fstype=ext2
>         fi
>
>         cat > /etc/fstab << __GNU__
>         # /etc/fstab: static file system information
>         #
>         # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>               <dump>  <pass>
>         __GNU__
>
>         if [ ! -e /dev/${rootpart} ] ; then
>                 echo Couldn\'t determine root partition, sorry.
>                 echo You have to edit /etc/fstab to match your system.
>                 echo However, for your convenience, I will install a dummy entry.
>                 echo "#/dev/hd0s1       /               ext2    rw                      1       1" >> /etc/fstab
>         else
>                 echo Your root partition is /dev/${rootpart}.
>                 echo Your file system type is ${fstype}.
>                 echo If this information is not correct, you need to edit /etc/fstab.
>                 echo "/dev/${rootpart}  /               ${fstype}       rw                      1       1" >> /etc/fstab
>         fi
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Kapil.
>
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