On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 02:10:12PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote: > Im currently trying to rebuild some stuff on my system using apt-build > and its not going very well. In particular: > > apt-build --reinstall --rebuild install xserver-xfree86 [...] > E: Package hurd has no installation candidate > E: Build-Depends dependency on xfree86 cannot be satisfied because the > package freebsd cannot be found > Error while installing build dependencies, stopped. [...] > Im thinking some dependency has been added on the Hurd and since Im > using the linux kernel it cant satisfy the hurd deps. apt-get's output looks pretty suboptimal. Check the xfree86 source package's build dependencies by hand. I think you'll find that they can, in fact, all be satisfied on a Linux box. > I was looking through some of the bug reports for xfree86 and noticed a > lot of old bugs taged as upstream. Has there been any effort to go look > over these and check if any are fixed in the current version so they can > be closed? I've got plans for the ones filed against xserver-xfree86. -- G. Branden Robinson | The first thing the communists do Debian GNU/Linux | when they take over a country is to branden@debian.org | outlaw cockfighting. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Oklahoma State Senator John Monks
Attachment:
pgpE2HcLfu2sp.pgp
Description: PGP signature