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| -rw-r--r-- | contributing.mdwn | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/running/debian/dhcp.mdwn | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | open_issues/symlink_translator.mdwn | 24 |
3 files changed, 25 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/contributing.mdwn b/contributing.mdwn index 618e5ca1..67b84590 100644 --- a/contributing.mdwn +++ b/contributing.mdwn @@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ lookups|hurd/interface/dir_lookup]] work. * Add a tool to trace system calls, by using gnumach's Syscall-Emulation, see <http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/gnumach-doc/Syscall-Emulation.html> * Improve our [[FUSE library|hurd/libfuse]]. * Add a relatime or lazytime option to ext2fs. +* Fix our [[open_issues/symlink_translator]]. <a name="porting"></a> ## Porting Packages diff --git a/hurd/running/debian/dhcp.mdwn b/hurd/running/debian/dhcp.mdwn index 8846769a..cda2034d 100644 --- a/hurd/running/debian/dhcp.mdwn +++ b/hurd/running/debian/dhcp.mdwn @@ -11,20 +11,6 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!tag open_issue_porting]] -In order to use DHCP, you need to install the `ifupdown` and `isc-dhcp-client` -packages, and manually create the following symbolic link: - - # ln -s ../rcS.d/S10networking /etc/rc.boot/ - -During execution at boot time, the `S10networking` script will emit some error -messages while trying to configure the loopback interface. These are not -fatal. - -Debian GNU/Hurd doesn't currently execute Debian standard `/etc/rcS.d/*` boot -scripts, but has its own `/libexec/rc` script -- which integrates scripts from -`/etc/rc.boot/` instead. - - # Open Issues * [[!debbug 616290]] diff --git a/open_issues/symlink_translator.mdwn b/open_issues/symlink_translator.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e56cfc42 --- /dev/null +++ b/open_issues/symlink_translator.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!tag open_issue_hurd]] + +The /hurd/symlink translator does not work as expected: + + % settrans -ca broken /hurd/symlink missing + % file broken + broken: empty + +Here is the expected behavior, as implemented by the short-cut logic +in lib*fs: + + % ln -s missing broken_symlink + % file broken_symlink + broken_symlink: broken symbolic link to missing |