Re: questions about debian/hurd...
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 09:22:23AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 01:43:13PM +1200, Philip Charles wrote:
> > > Once sarge is released could we get the d-i team to start looking at
> > > incorporating Debian GNU/Hurd into the installer?
> >
> > I'm one of the d-i hackers and I've been working on this for the last
> > week or so already, although I had been hoping to announce that fact
> > only once I actually had something that worked. :-)
>
> Awesome!
>
> > I've got untested patches to the build system, rootskel, and
> > base-installer; I've made libdebian-installer build, and uploaded
> > quite a few binaries from the dependency tree above that; I've made
> > some progress on netcfg; and I've got a hit-list of other Linux
> > assumptions I know about that we need to iron out. Once I have an
> > installer image that boots at all, I may be able to get one or two
> > other d-i developers interested in helping out.
>
> Rock! :)
30 Aug this year is the fifth anniversary of the A1 CD. I was going to
announce a slow withdrawl from the Debian GNU/Hurd CD/DVD at this stage.
So I am _very_ pleased with these developments.
Phil.
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