Re: [PATCH 00/41] The x86_64 port

[Samuel Thibault]

Sergey Bugaev, le mer. 10 mai 2023 13:25:25 +0300, a ecrit:
> On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 3:55 AM Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> 
> wrote:
> > With the available .debs you should now be able to enable these.
> 
> I'm afraid I'm going to need more guidance here. Your little tutorial
> in readme [0] is helpful (thank you!),

Note that it is just the boilerplate that I have in all my tmp/ repos.

> but I still have questions.
> 
> [0]: https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/tmp/hurd-amd64/README.txt
> 
> I can't just install packages by reconfiguring apt and installing them
> directly as you suggest, because that assumes a working Debian
> installation

Yes, that's why I added there that you can just use dpkg-deb to
unpack them to your test fs.

> Maybe I'm supposed to use the apt flags which tell it to operate on a
> chroot?

That's quite complex, there are a lot of configuration details to get
right. I'd say just unpack by hand for now.

> I've tried debootstrap, but that errors out at "Can't verify that
> target arch works" -- apparently usr/bin/arch-test does not recognize
> hurd-amd64.

There is no real hurd-amd64 archive yet anyway. Possibly debootstrap
could be pointed to my repo, I haven't tested.

> The way to disable that check appears to be --foreign; but
> I wasn't (yet) able to get that working either. If you are using
> debootstrap and it works for you,

I'm not, I haven't had the time to investigate that part yet.

> I could try to just extract some packages using your 'dpkg-deb -x'
> tip, but I would still like for apt/dpkg to figure out the
> dependencies for me,

For now you'll just be faced with library dependencies, so I'd say just
unpack all lib*.deb (+zlib1g*.deb) and you'll be done.

Samuel