Re: Any Hurd porters interested in getting MariaDB working?

On 2025-12-20 10:28, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> Hello!

Hello!

> I've spent quite a lot of effort in trying to get MariaDB work on all
> Debian architectures and I am happy to state that the situation
> visible at https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=mariadb is
> pretty good today. The only remaining problematic ones are hppa and
> Hurd.

It's so kind of you to pay those efforts.

> Are there any Hurd porters with an interest in getting MariaDB working
> in the port?
> 
> I am happy to take your patches, do additional testing and do uploads.
> Unfortunately I can't do the actual port fixing myself as there is too
> much work and the domain is something I am not strong in. My attempt
> at fixes at 
> https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/merge_requests/145
> did get some progress, so if you want to take on this challenge, you
> don't need to start from zero.

I've looked at that MR and found that the patch is mainly about 
disabling cracklib related features of MariaDB. I guess it might be 
because cracklib is failed to build on Hurd. So I've tried to fix 
cracklib build on Hurd and created a MR on it at 
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/pkg-cracklib/-/merge_requests/6. If 
cracklib can be built successfully on Hurd, I think MariaDB can be built 
successfully automatically. If I'm wrong, please point out.

Thanks!

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Yuqian Yang <[email protected]>