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diff --git a/user/jkoenig.mdwn b/user/jkoenig.mdwn index cbd30b93..10247217 100644 --- a/user/jkoenig.mdwn +++ b/user/jkoenig.mdwn @@ -103,12 +103,6 @@ I will be keeping track of my progress on this page. **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. @@ -153,46 +147,121 @@ installer kindof works, with documented manual intervention required** * make partman-basicfilesystems re-create the device as a kernel partition, which is needed for swapon -* **d-i/installer/build**: (expected 2010-06-28) +* (./) netcfg-static: port to hurd (2010-07-09) + * There was some amount of hurd support already + (namely, activating the interface by replacing the socket translator) + * However, this code started an active translator with + di_exec_shell_log("settrans -a ...), + which stalled as a consequence of it capturing libdi's pipe + as its standard output. + * Network devices must be probed by trying to open Mach devices + with predetermined names (currently eth%d, wl%d), + because getifaddrs() does not seem to work on Hurd. + * /!\ netcfg, and configuring the installed system, postponed. + +* **procps** 3.2.7-11 (current hurd-i386 version) has [[!debbug 546888]] + * (./) Submit [[!debbug 588677]] and upload the result to my repository. + (2010-07-11) + +* (./) 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) + * Apparently debootstrap does not handle multiple versions very well. + Fix by using dpkg-scan{package,sources} rather than apt-ftparchive + to create index files. + (2010-07-10) + * Use the override files from ftp.debian.org, + to avoid debootstrap grabbing inappropriate packages. + * Changed them to make [[!debpkg ifupdown]], + [[!debpkg dhcp3-client]] and [[!debpkg dhcp3-client]] priority extra, + because they're uninstallable at the moment. + (2010-07-12) + +* (./) Put together a "jk-archive-keyring" package, + so that the mirror is authenticated in the target system as well. + (2010-07-12) + +* (./) Fix grub for user-space partitions (2010-07-16) + * grub-probe detects the whole device rather than the partition + as the device behind /boot/grub. + Consequently, grub-install fails. + * One approach would be to replace /dev/hd* by kernel devices + for file systems as well as for swap partitions. + > {X} this makes the installer crash, + > possibly due to cache coherency issue between hdX and hdXsY. + + * (./) GRUB2 kern/emu/getroot.c + [patched](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-07/msg00059.html) + to support part stores. + +* (./) Fix finish-install to skip `finish-install.d/90console` on Hurd + (2010-07-17) + +* debootstrap: + Don't use find to firmlink devices into /target, + to avoid starting many translators at once + (2010-07-17, to be tested soon) + +* **d-i/installer/build**: (expected soon) * 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 -* **partman**: further adjustments - * hide irrelevant mount options? (sync, relatime) +**Milestone (expected 2010-07-18): +installer works but it's still somewhat ugly and broken** + +* call for testing and fix the bugs + +* See if it would be possible to avoid accessing devices + when firmlinking them into the target system. + * Who does that? + * find should prune them as instructed, + and avoid a stat/readdir as a result + * showtrans shouldn't access the translator itself + * firmlink should access the target only when it is used + +* In the same vein, permissions on underlying nodes + are probably broken when created by hurd through `MAKEDEV -k`, + and doing the actual chmod/chown accesses the device + * Maybe settrans could be made to accept -o/--owner and + -p/--perm, to set the permissions for the underlying node? + +* Silence the "no kernel" warning somehow. + +* Try to resolve problems with udebs which are uninstallable on hurd-i386, + such as installation-locale and partman-whatever. + +* Provide `/proc/cmdline -> 2/cmdline`, or something. + +* Prepare a NMU for genext2fs (which is orphaned), + and ask youpi to sponsor the upload. * **busybox**: port * fix stty/stat/ipcs on kFreeBSD, * generally port more stuff, - * *ip* is needed for network configuration, + * *ip* is needed (maybe) for network configuration, * *mount*, *swaponoff* can be from hurd-udeb for now, though the kFreeBSD people will need them -* <strike>tweak the hurd debian package to handle - what native-install used to be required for</strike> - (debootstrap does it) - -* <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. +* **partman**: further adjustments + * hide irrelevant mount options? (sync, relatime) -**Milestone (expected 2010-07-05): -installer works but it's still somewhat ugly and broken** +* Network configuration on the installed system. + This includes porting ifupdown and isc-dhcp-client, + which are currently uninstallable on hurd-i386. +* Also, better DHCP support during and after installation -* call for testing and fix the bugs * improve the [initrd situation](FIXME: link to bug-hurd post): ajust the ramdisk support in Mach, - use tmpfs if possible, - possibly add `module -nounzip` to grub2. + use tmpfs if possible. + * mklibs{,-copy}: test library reduction, make it copy the ld.so -> ld.so.1 symlink. + * hurd console fonts -* better DHCP support during and after installation **Milestone (expected 2010-07-19): it works great and it's beautiful** |