Re: sbuild on hurd-amd64...

On jeu., 2025-11-20 at 01:57 +0100, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
wrote:
> Quoting Samuel Thibault (2025-11-19 16:24:15)
> > Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues, le mer. 19 nov. 2025 15:02:59
> > +0100, a
> > ecrit:
> > > Does the plan9 filesystem work
> > 
> > The Hurd doesn't have a plan9 implementation. It has nfs client
> > support,
> > though.
> 
> hm... setting up an NFS server on the outside is I do not think
> something which
> can/should be done as part of the unit tests. I don't think there is
> a NFS
> server which can be started ad-hoc for any directory by an
> unprivileged user.
> The beauty of 9P was that I don't even have to start a server myself
> but it's
> integrated into QEMU.

can you explain please ?

> 
> How would you normally mount a directory from outside with Hurd as a
> guest?
> Just via NFS? Does SMB work in Hurd (QEMU also does that by itself)?

i try if you live

> 
> I could also copy in everything before the test starts and then copy
> out
> everything afterwards but since we are talking a few GB of data that
> would take
> a bit of time. :/
> 
> While I have you: I'm currently using mini-httpd to serve a directory
> as a
> local Debian mirror for apt. I saw that mini-httpd does not exist in
> the Hurd

as nginx ?

> archives. Is there a small-footprint http server which you'd
> recommend to use
> on Hurd?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> cheers, josch

take care,
jean-christophe