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@@ -79,17 +79,6 @@ I will be keeping track of my progress on this page.
* Reminder:
I should file a bug against libparted with the patch sometime.
-* **busybox**: submit upstream and to [[!debbug 323670]]
- (waiting for upstream to review)
- * (./) I have mentioned my work on the upstream mailing list,
- * (./) merge the recent changes from upstream,
- notably to the build system.
- (2010-06-23)
- * (./) ask upstream for review and merge
- (2010-06-25)
- * backport any additional changes onto the debian branch
- * hijack [[!debbug 323670]] and submit my patches
-
* (./) The `/servers/exec` issue (2010-06-26)
* Due to /servers being inexistant,
the bootstrap ext2fs could not register the initial exec server,
@@ -106,17 +95,69 @@ I will be keeping track of my progress on this page.
* Firmlink /servers into /target after debootstrap
to make the network available.
-* **grub-installer** (expected 2010-06-28)
- * review the whole thing and add hurd to the supported cases
+* (./) **grub-installer**
+ * (./) add hurd support (2010-06-27)
+ * /!\ grub-legacy still needs to be tested
+ * submit changes as a Debian bug
+
+**Milestone (2010-06-28):
+installer kindof works, with documented manual intervention required**
+
+* (./) Set up a Debian mirror with modified packages for installation
+ * the [mirror](http://jk.fr.eu.org/debian/hurd-install/mirror)
+ is now up and running (2010-07-06)
+ * hacked the image build script to include its public key in
+ debian-archive-keyring at image build time (2010-07-08)
+
+* (./) Sort out the situation with dev node creation (2010-07-07):
+ * Devices and servers used to be set up by debootstrap;
+ the hurd package would add some missing nodes.
+ * New strategy implemented in hurd and debootstrap:
+ * debootstrap uses active firmlinks into the host system
+ for the target system's /dev and /servers.
+ * the hurd package now include a `setup-translators` script,
+ which is used to register the passive translators by the installer's
+ `/libexec/runsystem` and hurd's postinst script.
+
+* **busybox**: submit upstream and to [[!debbug 323670]]
+ (waiting for upstream to review)
+ * (./) I have mentioned my work on the upstream mailing list,
+ * (./) merge the recent changes from upstream,
+ notably to the build system.
+ (2010-06-23)
+ * (./) ask upstream for review and merge
+ (2010-06-25)
+ * (./) sent as patches as requested
+ (2010-07-08)
+ * backport any additional changes onto the debian branch
+ * hijack [[!debbug 323670]] and submit my patches
+
+* **aptitude**:
+ * Currently broken on hurd-i386:
+ [[!debpkg gtest]] fails to build because of a segfault in one of the test
+ cases, [[!debpkg google-mock]] and hence [[!debpkg aptitude]] are missing
+ it as a build-dep.
+ The older package is not installable anymore because it's linked against
+ an older version of libept, which has been removed.
+ * (./) I bypassed the tests and uploaded the 3 packages to my repository
+ (2010-07-08)
+ * The segfault will have to be sorted out. (postponed)
+
+* (./) "Fix" the swap situation. (2010-07-08)
+ * The device_close() libstore patch
+ had the unfortunate effect of making swapon fail,
+ since the device it activates has to be kept open.
+ * add options for MAKEDEV and setup-devices
+ to use the libparted stores
+ * disable youpi's patch
+ * make partman-basicfilesystems re-create the device
+ as a kernel partition, which is needed for swapon
* **d-i/installer/build**: (expected 2010-06-28)
* publish the patch I use
* sort out the changes suitable for inclusion
and ask youpi and/or debian-boot@l.d.o to commit them
-**Milestone (expected 2010-06-28):
-installer kindof works, with documented manual intervention required**
-
* **partman**: further adjustments
* hide irrelevant mount options? (sync, relatime)
@@ -131,13 +172,13 @@ installer kindof works, with documented manual intervention required**
what native-install used to be required for</strike>
(debootstrap does it)
-* netcfg: make it work on Hurd somehow (port `busybox ip`?)
-
-* Hurd-specific partitionning (use supported fs types and options).
- NB: we will need support in mach to reload the partition tables,
- or alternatively use the parted support in libstore somehow.
-
-* grub2 installation
+* <strike>netcfg: make it work on Hurd somehow (port `busybox ip`?)</strike>
+ * Apparently netcfg-static already has Hurd support,
+ though we may want to make it use fsysopts instead of settrans.
+ * What I *will* have to do is to teach ethdetect
+ to use 'devprobe' on a number for network device prefixes
+ to determine the list (eth%d, wl%d, anything else?).
+ * busybox udhcpc will eventually have to be ported.
**Milestone (expected 2010-07-05):
installer works but it's still somewhat ugly and broken**
@@ -159,6 +200,7 @@ it works great and it's beautiful**
* test, fix, document
* support more types of installation images
* give a shot at the graphical installer if time permits
+* integrate wireless drivers with netcfg
* see how [[zhengda]]'s work on DDE could be integrated
* etc..