Re: Bug#50207: hurd installation feedback and RE: new tarfile
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> Package: base-files
> Version: N/A
>
> On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 03:59:38PM -0500, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:
> >
> > > /proc is not used on the Hurd at all. The existence is an artifact of the
> > > generic debian base packages (base-files) which is creating it even on the
> > > Hurd...
> >
> > So, rather than have to continue to say this, is there a more suitable
> > Linux-specific package that we could request /proc be moved to?
>
> Another solution would be to create the directry in the postinst on Linux
> machines only. Santiago, what are your ideas about this?
I plan to make base-files an "Architecture: any" package (instead of "all").
This will also allow us to have a nice OS-dependent /etc/motd which is a
conffile at the same time.
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