Re: creating Hurd chroots on Linux using DPKG_ROOT chrootless mode

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues, le mar. 21 mai 2024 11:50:25 +0200, a ecrit:
> Where I should've looked is:
> 
> http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-hurd-i386/main/p/pam/
> 
> Or I should've looked in the hurd-i386 Packages file instead of checking the
> pool directory. So what I did instead was to build pam with the patches from
> #1029097 on the exodar porter box resulting in this debdiff:
> 
> https://paste.debian.net/hidden/84c2d298/
> 
> Are the sources for pam that got uploaded to unreleased available somewhere?

It's in http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-hurd-i386/main/p/pam/

> I only see an empty (40 byte) Sources.gz in
> http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/dists/unreleased/main/source/

Yes, that's a missing feature in the mini-dak setup of debian-ports.

> In any case, things go much further now. The next problem is some missing
> DPKG_ROOT support in the hurd maintainer script. I opened a merge request here:
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/hurd-team/hurd/-/merge_requests/1

Thanks!

> There were no forks and no merge requests on that repo yet so I hope I did
> everything correctly. :D

Congrats for the first MR :)

Samuel