Re: crosshurd

[Patrick Strasser <past@sbox.tugraz.at>]

Jeff Bailey wrote:
> If you are
> not running Debian [...], you can either:
>
> 1) Use Philip's CDs.[...]
>
> 2) Use debootstrap to install a Debian system in a chroot jail and then
> use crosshurd.[...]

3) install a rpm
4) install a tarball

Lots of people run rpm based system and cannot handle debs. For the 
others, the tarrball has exactly the same files as the deb and the rpm, 
you have put them manually in place.

I've converted the Debian package into tgz and rpm packages, thanks to 
alien (shouldn't be difficult without).
tgz was straigt forward, so it containes the files from /etc/crosshurd 
and the /usr/...-files.
Alien didn't make it through the complete rpm process. I had to move the 
spec file out of the build directory and rund rpm -bb then, that was all 
to build the rpm file.

I don't see any distribution spedicfic issues with the rpm, it should be 
installable on all distros. I worked on Mandrake 9.1. Dependencies are 
empty, though.

You can find the files at
http://www.htu.tugraz.at/~past/hurd/crosshurd/

Patrick
--
Engineers motto: cheap, good, fast: choose any two
Patrick Strasser <past at sbox dot tugraz dot at>
Student of Telematik, Techn. University Graz, Austria