Re: crosshurd x86 dependency issues
On May 29, 2023 8:34:00 PM GMT+02:00, Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Amos Jeffries, le mar. 30 mai 2023 04:59:45 +1200, a ecrit:
>> I picked crosshurd to do the bootstrap process.
>>
>> crosshurd -t /src/hurd/deb-crosshurd/hurd64 -s gnu -c x86_64 -d unstable
>>
>> Initially it reveals that Debian ports has no packages yet (sad, but oh
>> well).
>
>As mentioned on bug-hurd, since the ABI isn't really stable yet I prefer
>not to upload packages there yet.
>
>> After patching crosshurd/sources.list to allow it to use Simons' temporary
>> repo:
>> https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/tmp/hurd-amd64
>> (along with the necessary key registration for apt)
>>
>> The output becomes:
>>
>> E: Package 'isc-dhcp-client' has no installation candidate
>> E: Package 'gettext-base' has no installation candidate
>> E: Package 'info' has no installation candidate
>> E: Unable to locate package cardmgr-gnumach
>> E: Unable to locate package wireless-tools-gnumach
>
>Yes, these are not available yet. Help is welcome on fixing the build of
>isc-dhcp and gettext in hurd-i386, and they'll probably just build on
>hurd-amd64 as well.
>
>Concerning texinfo, it seems that the packaging doesn't support
>cross-building yet since it generates documentation with its
>just-compiled (cross)-built makedoc, even with -B. Contribution will be
>welcome for general cross-buildability.
>
>Concerning cardmgr-gnumach and wireless-tools-gnumach, these are
>probably not worth spending time since they are mostly outdated. I have
>now removed them in the crosshurd repo.
>
>That said you can already just comment them by hand from your
>/etc/crosshurd/packages/
>
>And also, you can as well just follow the wiki-documented debootstrap
Was the second-stage hapenned to work.
>method
>https://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/open_issues/64-bit_port/
>which does build fine since it uses a reduced set of packages (and cares
>much less about installability).
>
>... or simply the prebuilt image from
>
>https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/initrd-amd64.img.gz
>
>Samuel
>
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