ma 17.8.2026 klo 19.41 Roy Marples ([email protected]) kirjoitti:
>
> From: Martin-Éric Racine <[email protected]>
> To: "Roy Marples"<[email protected]>
> Cc: "Samuel Thibault"<[email protected]>, "Joan 
> Lledó"<[email protected]>, "bug-hurd"<[email protected]>
> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:12:22 +0100
> Subject: Re: Fwd: [PATCH 4/6] New GNU/Hurd backend
>
>  > to 6.8.2026 klo 3.23 Roy Marples ([email protected]) kirjoitti:
>  > > dhcpcd-10.5.0 does not work with Hurd due to the forced socket changes 
> (should be a compile failure).
>  > > Hurd lacks the means of authenticating a socket. ideally getpeereid(3) 
> should be supported as it's sockets are BSD centric
>  > > which would make my life easy.
>  > >
>  > > In the meantime I'll harden the socket at the filesystem layer again, 
> but the new readgroup support won't work as the socket can only have one 
> group and the controlgroup takes precedence.
>  > >
>  > > I'll try and get 10.5.1 out with this after my holidays.
>  >
>  > Roy, If you have a link to your current Hurd branch on GitHub, I'm
>  > sure that people can help you complete the Hurd port.
>
> https://github.com/NetworkConfiguration/dhcpcd/tree/hurd_test
> The port itself is feature complete, Joan also has some improvements in a 
> separate branch but I have yet to look at that.

I'd say merge what you have into 10.5.x and let Hurd developers pick it up.

> My main concern is that AFAIK my local changes to headers *might* have been 
> fixed in Debian but they have not been fixed in Gentoo.
> Even with these changes there is too much header churn: 
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11142
> Debian does not provide a Hurd image I can use.
> Gentoo does not provide a Hurd image I can upgrade.

AFAIK GNU uses Debian for its "official" Hurd releases, based on a
snapshot published shortly after every new major Debian release. It's
a good idea to use that for automated Github CI testing as well.

Can you be more specific on what's wrong with the Debian Hurd image?

Martin-Éric

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