Re: On the possibility of OpenRC for GNU/Hurd (gsoc2013)
On 05/28/2013 11:10 AM, heroxbd wrote:
> Dear Samuel and Pino,
> (I am not subscribed to debian-hurd list, please Cc me off the list)
>
> I am a co-mentor of "OpenRC init system in Debian" project this year.
>
> Our project is about to Debianize OpenRC[1], a candidate replacement for
> /etc/init.d/rc originated from Gentoo written in C and POSIX
> shell. OpenRC is created with portability in mind and it runs on FreeBSD
> port of Gentoo.
>
> The packaging effort is ongoing, and we expect a usable package
> available by the end of soc (Hopefully earier). A nice summary of most
> recent present progress is posted by Thomas,
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/183307
>
> I read in GNU/Hurd Debianish init project[2] that
>
> ,----
> | The goal of this project is to make this port use the default Debian
> | init system (currently: sysvinit and its rc, sysv-rc), fixing bugs in it
> | and in the associated init scripts, and then simply enable them instead
> | of the GNU/Hurd upstream ones.
> `----
>
> and sensed commonalities between our projects. Although it is not mature
> to say we can roll out a Debianized OpenRC on GNU/Hurd under the
> collaboration of both projects, it would be nice to keep us updated of
> the progress to watch for this possibility. Being no expert on Hurd nor
> init system, I think OpenRC might be cleaner to hack than sysv-rc.
>
> Hints and comments welcome :)
>
> Cheers,
> Benda
Hi everyone,
Would it be possible to give Bill Wang and heroxbd an ssh access on a
porter box, so that they can make sure that OpenRC builds in Hurd?
Cheers,
Thomas Goirand (zigo)
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