Re: blubber and grubber down

[Michael Banck]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 05:47:24PM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 11:45:39AM +0100, I wrote:
> > I think I'll reinstall them later today (preserving /home/, of course).
> 
> Sergiu rightfully so reminded me that I had forgotten to do that.
> blubber is again up running, and grubber will be in some days --
> realistically.  ;-) (I did some changes to my install scripts, and want
> to test and use these improvements for re-installing grubber.)
> <http://www.bddebian.com:8888/~hurd-web/public_hurd_boxen/zenhost/> now
> documents the installation process, so that someday another person can do
> this, too.
> 
> 
> > Should be pretty easy now that crosshurd is functional again.
> 
> Michael, FYI: This indeed the case.  The only strange thing I noticed is
> this:
> 
>     I: Extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/coreutils_7.5-6_hurd-i386.deb...
>     I: Extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/dash_0.5.5.1-3_hurd-i386.deb...
>     tar: ./bin/sh: Cannot create symlink to `dash': File exists
>     tar: ./usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz: Cannot create symlink to `dash.1.gz': 
> File exists
>     tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
>     I: Extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/debianutils_3.2.1_hurd-i386.deb...
>     I: Extracting 
> /var/cache/apt/archives/diffutils_1%3a2.8.1-18_hurd-i386.deb...
> 
> But this didn't have any negative effects (dash finally is running as
> /bin/sh), so I ignored it.

Yeah, it's because both the bash and dash .debs ship the /bin/sh symlink
now; not much we can do about it right now, as both packages are
uptodate with respect to unstable.


Michael