Fix for a problem, and how it was done (was: Re: gnu-19990505.tar.gz uploaded
On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 07:43:18PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> Otherwise, it is now easy enough for me to rebuild and upload it, so if it
> is broken, we will do a new one :)
There is a problem with native-install, or with Hurd, I am not sure yet.
Here is the patch:
--- /mnt/marcus/gnu/hurd/repository/native-install Tue Apr 27 21:45:59 1999
+++ /gnu/native-install Wed May 5 20:53:25 1999
@@ -36,13 +36,16 @@
/bin/ln -s 2 /servers/socket/inet
fi
+cp /usr/share/base-passwd/passwd.master /etc/passwd
+cp /usr/share/base-passwd/group.master /etc/group
+cd dev
+/bin/sh ./MAKEDEV fd null
+
# We need the following so "chown root" works for MAKEDEV
echo
echo Now I will configure some essential packages, so I can chown files to root.
dpkg --configure mawk
dpkg --configure libc0.2
-cp /usr/share/base-passwd/passwd.master /etc/passwd
-cp /usr/share/base-passwd/group.master /etc/group
# Setup crucial devices
echo
The problem is that the new Hurd version does answer /dev/fd/4: File don't
exist, even if the interpreter for the hashexec is in place. This seems to
be a problem only when such a script is fork/exec'ed by dpkg, not if it is
run from the shell manually. Very strange.
Secondly, Roland ask me how I did it. Well, I used cross-install. I did
it under Linux, but there is no reason why it shouldn't work from the Hurd.
Put a mirror of the package tree to some place, and run:
./cross-install /path/to/hurd
(answer yes)
cd /path/to/hurd
tar -czpf /tmp/gnu-19990505.tar.gz *
That's all.
Install with
tar --same-owner -xpzf gnu-19990505.tar.gz
Thanks,
Marcus
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