libnss-2 problems?

[Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu>]

  (this message is a little rambling, please bear with me..)

  Hi all.  I've finally gotten around to reinstalling the Hurd on my new
system, and I have to say that I'm very impressed by how much it's improved
since I dipped my toe in last time.  I'm afraid I won't have time to do much
work with it in the near future, but I might port a few useful packages if
I get a chance.  (eg, links compiles but doesn't seem to work out-of-the-box)

  There were a lot of dependency issues when I installed (I used cross-install)
which I assume are just transient things in the archive (eg, the debconf thing
that will hopefully be fixed soon)  I got one assertion failure in dpkg
(1.6.999, "depentry<=4") when installing apt, but forcing depends fixed
that.

  Anyway, the specific thing I'm wondering about is whether something is
weird with libnss and maybe some other stuff.  When I run many programs (such
as apt), I get fatal errors about "failure to dlopen libnss2" (or something
to that effect, I'll post a more concrete message from the Hurd system if more
specific information is needed)

  Also, how does uploading a package for the Hurd work?  Am I correct in
guessing that I can just build it and upload it as usual, or is something
tricky necessary?  (eg, setting the distribution to "sid")  I'd like to upload
Hurd versions of as many of my packages as possible (aptitude in particular;
the others are mostly games and I don't know whether the necessary
infrastructure (ggi, svgalib, sdl, mikmod) exists on the Hurd..)

  umm..what else..oh: Has anyone tried to build libsigc++ on the Hurd?  The
next major aptitude version will be heavily dependent on it, and I'd like to
be able to compile on the Hurd if possible.  I'm afraid that it might be
a bit tricky, but I haven't tried.  Once I can get some of the other issues
sorted out, I may take a look at that.

  I'm sure I'll think of other stuff in the future.

   Thanks,
  Daniel

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