Re: APT

[Per Lundberg <plundis@chaosdev.org>]

On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:

> Okay, so the shlibdeps info in the gdb binary is not correct. I will soon
> update gdb and make sure it is okay

Doesn't dh_shlibdeps work under Hurd or what?

> You will want hurd-dev anyway, so it's not a loss :)

No, but faulty dependecies are always a problem since a new user (like me)
doesn't know which package is missing..

> I will try to take a look at apt myself. The architecture stuff is something
> I am particulary concerned with, and this should be done right... I wonder
> how apt determines the installation architecture.

It's fairly straighforward.. check in the configure.in for the section
about architectures. (search for ARCHITECTURE)

> > Another thing I discovered is that the Hurd bails out totally if it runs
> > out of memory. But I guess this is quite known? ;)
> Use swap. Use even more swap. That helps alot.

Yeah, but I still don't think it should _crash_ when it runs out of
memory..