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diff --git a/community/weblogs/ArneBab/2008-08-02-gnu_hurd_and_x.mdwn b/community/weblogs/ArneBab/2008-08-02-gnu_hurd_and_x.mdwn index d72f4cef..844481be 100644 --- a/community/weblogs/ArneBab/2008-08-02-gnu_hurd_and_x.mdwn +++ b/community/weblogs/ArneBab/2008-08-02-gnu_hurd_and_x.mdwn @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ I worked as root. First I installed xorg, x-window-system-code, rxvt and twm: - apt-get install xserver-xorg x-window-system-core rxvt twm + apt install xserver-xorg x-window-system-core rxvt twm Then I set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and DISPLAY diff --git a/community/weblogs/ArneBab/2011-04-06-application-pyhurd.mdwn b/community/weblogs/ArneBab/2011-04-06-application-pyhurd.mdwn index b0e57bfb..5ead2362 100644 --- a/community/weblogs/ArneBab/2011-04-06-application-pyhurd.mdwn +++ b/community/weblogs/ArneBab/2011-04-06-application-pyhurd.mdwn @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ For this years GSoC I want to turn the currently rudimentary Python Bindings of * *August 8.* More translators and integrating into the build system. * *August 15.* - Suggested Pencils down. The translator API is easy to use, there are many example translators and there is a full featured settrans command in Python using the easier controlling API which shows how to control the Hurd directly from Python. The code is pushed to <https://github.com/ArneBab/PyHurd> and a git repo at <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd> and integrated into the build system with a switch to enable building PyHurd. + Suggested Pencils down. The translator API is easy to use, there are many example translators and there is a full featured settrans command in Python using the easier controlling API which shows how to control the Hurd directly from Python. The code is pushed to <https://github.com/ArneBab/PyHurd> and a git repo at <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd> and integrated into the build system with a switch to enable building PyHurd. * *August 22.* Firm pencils down. diff --git a/community/weblogs/ArneBab/Hurd-showcase-qemu-image.mdwn b/community/weblogs/ArneBab/Hurd-showcase-qemu-image.mdwn index 00d09094..536487f1 100644 --- a/community/weblogs/ArneBab/Hurd-showcase-qemu-image.mdwn +++ b/community/weblogs/ArneBab/Hurd-showcase-qemu-image.mdwn @@ -6,19 +6,18 @@ For that I want to use: * An up to date debian image (no longer online, but I have a copy here). * My [Hurd Intro](http://bitbucket.org/ArneBab/hurd_intro), -* Translators from [hurd-extras](http://www.nongnu.org/hurdextras/) and the [incubator](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/incubator.git/), and naturally -* a lot of apt-get update; apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade :) (all worked flawlessly). +* Translators from [hurd-extras](http://www.nongnu.org/hurdextras/) and the [incubator](https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/incubator.git/), and naturally +* a lot of apt update; apt upgrade and apt dist-upgrade :) (all worked flawlessly). ## Working ### Generally # ssh with public key - apt-get install random-egd ssh-keygen # build tools - apt-get install build-essential + apt install build-essential ### StoreIO @@ -42,7 +41,7 @@ For that I want to use: # pkg-config is needed to avoid “PKG_CHECK_MODULES syntax error near unexpected token `HTTPFS,'” # pkg-config must be installed before you run autoreconf. - apt-get install autoconf autoconf-archive libxml2-dev pkg-config + apt install autoconf autoconf-archive libxml2-dev pkg-config autoreconf -i -f ./configure make @@ -55,8 +54,8 @@ For that I want to use: ### Tarfs - apt-get install zip libz-dev libbz2-dev - git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/hurd/incubator.git tarfs + apt install zip libz-dev libbz2-dev + git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/hurd/incubator.git tarfs cd tarfs/ git checkout tarfs/master cd tarfs @@ -76,11 +75,11 @@ For that I want to use: ### nsmux - git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/hurd/incubator.git nsmux + git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/hurd/incubator.git nsmux cd nsmux/ git checkout -b nsmux origin/nsmux - apt-get install autoconf autoconf-archive + apt install autoconf autoconf-archive autoreconf -i -f ./configure make @@ -97,11 +96,11 @@ For that I want to use: ### clisp - git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/hurd/incubator.git clisp + git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/hurd/incubator.git clisp cd clisp/ git checkout -b clisp origin/clisp - apt-get install texi2html + apt install texi2html make make install diff --git a/community/weblogs/ArneBab/porting-simple-packages.mdwn b/community/weblogs/ArneBab/porting-simple-packages.mdwn index becea251..ee7f76dc 100644 --- a/community/weblogs/ArneBab/porting-simple-packages.mdwn +++ b/community/weblogs/ArneBab/porting-simple-packages.mdwn @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ See [[Instant Development Environment|contributing#index5h2]] - just follow the ## Getting the list of failed packages - wget http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/failed_packages.txt.gz + wget http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/failed_packages.txt.gz gunzip failed_packages.txt.gz ## Finding a simple task @@ -36,13 +36,13 @@ Other simple tasks can be found on [[hurd/porting/guidelines]]. ## Downloading the package source and installing dependencies - apt-get source PACKAGE - apt-get build-dep PACKAGE + apt source PACKAGE + apt build-dep PACKAGE For example - apt-get source lilypond - apt-get build-dep lilypond + apt source lilypond + apt build-dep lilypond ## Fix the package diff --git a/community/weblogs/ArneBab/technical-advantages-of-the-hurd.mdwn b/community/weblogs/ArneBab/technical-advantages-of-the-hurd.mdwn index 35e55518..b2fa5585 100644 --- a/community/weblogs/ArneBab/technical-advantages-of-the-hurd.mdwn +++ b/community/weblogs/ArneBab/technical-advantages-of-the-hurd.mdwn @@ -15,13 +15,22 @@ The filesystem implements stuff like Gnome VFS (gvfs) and KDE **network transpar One practical advantage of this is that the following works: - settrans -a ftp\: /hurd/hostmux /hurd/ftpfs / - dpkg -i ftp://ftp.gnu.org/path/to/*.deb + $ settrans -a ftp\: /hurd/hostmux /hurd/ftpfs / + $ dpkg -i ftp://ftp.gnu.org/path/to/*.deb This installs all deb-packages in the folder `path/to` on the FTP server. The shell sees normal directories (beginning with the directory “ftp:”), so shell expressions just work. You could even define a Gentoo mirror translator (`settrans mirror\: /hurd/gentoo-mirror`), so every program could just access mirror://gentoo/portage-2.2.0_alpha31.tar.bz2 and get the data from a mirror automatically: `wget mirror://gentoo/portage-2.2.0_alpha31.tar.bz2` +How about mounting a remote ISO file? Now that we can access ftp.gnu.org transparently, +this is trivial! + + $ settrans -c mnt /hurd/iso9660fs $PWD/ftp://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/gnu-f2/hurd-F2-main.iso + $ ls mnt/ + +It is interesting to note that since the ISO9660 format is indexed, ftpfs does not have to +download the whole ISO file, it merely fetches what iso9660fs requests. + Or you could add a unionmount translator to root which makes writes happen at another place. **Every user is able to make a readonly system readwrite** by just specifying where the writes should go. But the writes **only affect his view of the filesystem**. Starting a network process is done by a translator, too: The first time something accesses the network card, the network translator starts up and actually provides the device. This replaces most **initscripts in the Hurd: Just add a translator to a node**, and the service will persist over restarts. diff --git a/community/weblogs/ArneBab/what_we_need.mdwn b/community/weblogs/ArneBab/what_we_need.mdwn index 4773d5c0..f6008d53 100644 --- a/community/weblogs/ArneBab/what_we_need.mdwn +++ b/community/weblogs/ArneBab/what_we_need.mdwn @@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ why not become a Hurd hacker and add your touch? :) You can reach us in the [[mailing_lists]] and in [[irc]]. -The sourcecode is in our [[source_repositories]] (git). When you want to check sources relevant for you, [DDE](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/incubator.git/tree/?h=dde) might be a good place to start for wireless and sound. USB on the other hand might need work in [gnumach](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/gnumach.git/) ([[hacking_info|microkernel/mach/gnumach]]). +The sourcecode is in our [[source_repositories]] (git). When you want to check sources relevant for you, [DDE](https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/incubator.git/tree/?h=dde) might be a good place to start for wireless and sound. USB on the other hand might need work in [gnumach](https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/gnumach.git/) ([[hacking_info|microkernel/mach/gnumach]]). -Besides: “The great next stuff” is in the [incubator git repo](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/incubator.git/), including (among others) [clisp](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/incubator.git/tree/?h=clisp) (translators in lisp) and [nsmux](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/incubator.git/tree/?h=nsmux) (dynamically setting translators on files for one command by accessing `file,,translator`). +Besides: “The great next stuff” is in the [incubator git repo](https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/incubator.git/), including (among others) [clisp](https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/incubator.git/tree/?h=clisp) (translators in lisp) and [nsmux](https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/incubator.git/tree/?h=nsmux) (dynamically setting translators on files for one command by accessing `file,,translator`). Happy hacking! diff --git a/community/weblogs/ArneBab/xkb-woes-trying-to-get-a-german-keyboard-layout.mdwn b/community/weblogs/ArneBab/xkb-woes-trying-to-get-a-german-keyboard-layout.mdwn index eb90f663..638b530e 100644 --- a/community/weblogs/ArneBab/xkb-woes-trying-to-get-a-german-keyboard-layout.mdwn +++ b/community/weblogs/ArneBab/xkb-woes-trying-to-get-a-german-keyboard-layout.mdwn @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ First I got the needed apt-sources: Then I installed the xkb console: -- `apt-get install console-driver-xkb` +- `apt install console-driver-xkb` And set it in the file /etc/default/hurd-console |