Hello, On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Michael Banck <mba...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 02:40:53PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 08:52:31PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > > > right now, cross-debootstrapping a hurd-i386 system (from i386, e.g.) > > > fails (silently) in first stage after extracting packages. > > > > > > This is because debootstrap runs setup_devices in first stage, and we > > > cannot setup the Hurd translators at this point when running > > > GNU/Linux because the necessary tools and kernel support is not > > > available[1]. > > > > > > Would it be possible to move the setup_devices call to second stage, at > > > least when ARCH=hurd-i386? I assume setting up the devices is required > > > for Linux arches when using --foreign, so that a boot into the new > > > system will have a /dev tree and might fail otherwise. > > > > > > We modified the hurd package so that it can boot fine after just being > > > unpacked without the need for having translators/devices setup, i.e. > the > > > debootstrap --foreign case. > > > > > > I've attached a patch which works for my case, though it might not be > > > the most elegant solution. > > > > Ping. Any news on this? > > Heeeellllooooo? > > I will NMU debootstrap in the next days with the proposed patch if I > don't hear anything back. > We're finishing the current release and haven't yet look at this patch so please calm down a bit ;-) -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: ota...@ossystems.com.br http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br
