Re: Porting distributions (was: installing Hurd)

On Sat, 29 May 2010 14:30:04 +0200
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 07:47:17AM -0500, Quiliro Ordóñez wrote:
> 
> > I would like to know what proceedure I would have to follow and the
> > how to develop the skills required to make the Trisquel/Ututo
> > versions with Hurd kernel.
> 
> As Trisquel is Ubuntu- and thus Debian-based, it should be pretty
> straight-forward -- almost everything should just work out of the box,

o_0
kk

> once you enable hurd-i386 architecture. The only tricky part is
> bootstrapping the build environment. I'm not too familiar with that
> stuff; but I guess you could just use a build chroot based on Debian
> GNU/Hurd initially, but set it up to build Trisquel packages using
> Trisquel sources.
> 
> Ututo is trickier. There was once an attempt to created Gentoo
> GNU/Hurd, but it didn't get very far, as the system was not stable
> enough back then to make a source-based distribution feasible. The
> stuff there is probably way too old by now to help with
> bootstrapping; but it might give some inspiration.
> 
> -antrik-
> 


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