Re: cross-apt
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:58:27PM +1000, Brian May wrote:
> >>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Bailey <jbailey@nisa.net> writes:
>
> Jeff> Is there a reasonable way under Debian to do cross-apts? A
> Jeff> friend of mine has a laptop with a winmodem, (so no PPP
> Jeff> available, network card is a pc-card), but he wants to play.
> Jeff> His main system is a Debian unstable, so I'm hoping there's
> Jeff> a way to do apt-get --root=/hurd --system=hurd-i386 install
> Jeff> foo
>
> Is
>
> chroot /hurd
> apt-get install foo
>
> insufficient for your needs? (note: you are going to have some
> problems with installing hurd stuff on a Linux system no matter what
> you do... Think of postinst scripts that call binary programs...).
That's why dpkg-hurd removes postinst and preinst scripts from a package
before installing it.
I filed a wishlist item against dpkg for a
--do-not-run-postinst-and-presinst-scripts option long time ago, but never
got a response on it. It would be truly useful. It would make dpkg-hurd
completely obsolete.
Marcus
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