Re: The Hurdish Package Manager

[Patrik Olsson]

On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 04:28 +0200, olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:44:38PM +0200, Patrik Olsson wrote:
> > On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 12:16 +0200, olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net wrote:
> 
> > > Yeah, that's why the project description mentions Hurdextras --
> > > there are some translators there that really need some love...
> [...]
> > Is there a Git repository for hurdextras? I only find a CVS repo at
> > Savannah which appears to be ancient.
> 
> Yeah, that's the one... There is a reason I said that those tranlators
> urgently need love :-)
> 
> Note that for unionfs -- which is the only one AFAIK that has seen some
> development recently -- we created a shiny new Git repository. This
> probably should be done for the other ones too, when doing any
> improvements...
> 

Is it necessary to have access to the CVS server to do the conversion
from CVS to Git? Should the different translators go into different
repositories?

> > > Otherwise, I just remembered that there is another tool in need for
> > > some love: the Hurd "ls" has some rather obvious shortcomings.
> > > Probably should be added to some todo list...
> > > 
> > 
> > This is probably a stupid question, but where can I find the code? I
> > did "find . -name '*ls*'" and "find . -name '*list*'" in the Hurd
> > sources, but no results. I also looked in coreutils sources, but there
> > seems to be nothing Hurd specific there.
> 
> Whoops, sorry, I meant "ps" :-(
> 

I had a look, and I couldn't find any really obvious things that needs
fixing. Well, except for a few spelling errors in the source comments.
(e.g. "who's" instead of "whose")

Besides that:

utils/ps.c:377:
      /* Try to avoid showing non-hurd processes if this isn't a native-booted
         hurd system (because there would be lots of them).  Here we use a
         simple heuristic: Is the 5th process a hurd process (1-4 are
         typically: proc server, init, kernel, boot default pager (maybe); the
         last two are know not to be hurd processes)?  */

utils/ps.c:389:
            /* Something is fucked, we can't get the state bits for PS.
               Default to showing everything.  */

But I have no idea how to fix those things.

/Patrik

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