Re: crosshurd

[Philip Charles <philipc@copyleft.co.nz>]

On 1 Jul 2003, Jeff Bailey wrote:

> Crosshurd is the replacement for Marcus' tarball system.  The biggest
> problem with the tarballs is that it fell quickly out of date.
> Crosshurd is intended to solve this problem by using apt to go out and
> fetch the current debs.
>
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> 2) Use debootstrap to install a Debian system in a chroot jail and then
> use crosshurd.  Note that the one in testing is broken because of a
> recent change to alpha.gnu.org.  The one in unstable works fine.  I
> should've marked it urgency high, but hey.  Does anyone actually *Run*
> testing? =)

Yup. Me.  Production System and all that.

> Marcus moved his tarball to attic/ to give the hint that it shouldn't be
> used anymore.  Crosshurd is well setup to make tarballs, if someone
> feels like it.  Or one day I might setup fencepost to do it.  Fencepost
> has been having "issues" though.

Sounds as though it will be useful to me.  Thinks, I might be able to use
this for the initial installation.  Should have time in a few weeks.  I
start the pesion then.

Phil.

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