Re: Hurd F1 CDs

[Jeff Bailey <jbailey@nisa.net>]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 06:38:36AM +0000, Philip Charles wrote:
> ae-962-30 is not working (broken?), however ae in the tarball does work. 
> So the ae-962-30 is being transfered to the second CD, if not removed
> completely. 

I just tested this on my system and it works for me, can you give me
details?

> There are still duplicate packages, namely bsdutils and eight flavours of
> binutils.  I am choosing the latest of each pair.

If you're planning on including gcc-2.95, you should get the binutils
off of alpha (in the devel directory).  I'm going to upload these to
Debian soon, but I lost the changes file, so I have to recompile. =(

> Considerable progress has been made in rationalising the debian-cd part.
> The use of a Hurd sub-set mirror means that a freeze is possible if
> required, alterations made without affecting the main archive and the file
> system restructured.  This makes life so much easier.

Nice.