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diff --git a/user/jkoenig.mdwn b/user/jkoenig.mdwn index cbd30b93..c9b6d762 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. @@ -153,37 +147,48 @@ 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. + +* (./) 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) + +* **partman**: further adjustments + * hide irrelevant mount options? (sync, relatime) + +* **d-i/installer/build**: (expected 2010-07-12) * 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 2010-07-12): +installer works but it's still somewhat ugly and broken** + +* call for testing and fix the bugs * **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. - -**Milestone (expected 2010-07-05): -installer works but it's still somewhat ugly and broken** - -* 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, |