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Re: Debian GNU/Hurd?



Actually, I think it's just a minor bug in apt-get. I see it too even
though I'm not running hurd, it mentions hurd in brackets with the -s
option. I've never worried about it, since it provides the need
functionality - telling me what packages will be upgraded.

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Colin Watson wrote:

> csj <csj@mindgate.net> wrote:
> >From a tip given somewhere on this list, I typed:
> >
> ># apt-get dist-upgrade -s
> >
> >And lo and behold came the following output:
> [...]
> >Inst diff [shellutils on hurd]
> [...]
> >What does the "shellutils on hurd" mean?
> 
> The shellutils package depends on 'login | hurd', since on the hurd-i386
> architecture the hurd package provides the functionality of the login
> package on other architectures. I think apt is just giving you an
> informational notice that there's an unsatisfied dependency on hurd,
> but, since (a) it can't install that package and (b) it doesn't matter
> anyway as login will do, it doesn't do anything about it.
> 
> >Is this the famed Hurd OS making its long overdue entrance?
> 
> Debian has had a hurd-i386 architecture for some years now, although
> it's never been released as stable yet. See
> <URL:http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/>.
> 
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
> 
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