Re: Hurd state

[Bas Wijnen]

Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>     > 2 July 2003
>     >     The tarball for Debian GNU/Hurd that Marcus Brinkmann made over
>     >     the years has been discontinued in favour of Jeff Bailey's
>     >     crosshurd package. To install Debian GNU/Hurd from now on, this
>     >     package should be used. Another Debian system is required to be
>     >     installed on the same machine. The GNU/Hurd installation guide has
>     >     not been updated yet.
>
>    It should be updated.
>
> No, it shouldn't.  This was news, and we shouldn't change history.

I meant the installation guide should be updated.  However, since the 
tarball still exists, it shouldn't be updated the way I expected, but by 
changing alpha.gnu.org to ftp.gnuab.org.  I guess it's still a good idea 
to mention crosshurd anyway.

>    In the installation guide, this is suggested for running X:
>     > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/X11R6/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
>    However, that will not work for suid programs, in particular xterm.
>    So either xterm should be made non-suid, which prevents it from
>    updating utmp, or you need to link all libraries to /lib.  Last
>    time I used the hurd I did the latter, but it would probably be
>    preferrable to have a translator on /lib which just merges the
>    contents of several directories.  Whatever is preferred for solving
>    this should be documented in the guide.
>
> Thhis is more a problem for Debian then the Hurd.  GNU won't have
> these problems since /X11R6/lib won't exist (it will probobly be
> /packages/XFree86-9.9.9/lib, that is unioned into /lib).

The problem would be the same as long as the files are not in /lib. 
Unioning would be the preferred solution IMO, so Debian should probably 
do that as well.  Or are there reasons not to do that?

Thanks,
Bas

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