Re: The Hurdish Package Manager

[Patrik Olsson]

On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 12:16 +0200, olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net wrote:
> 
> > Just not sure what change I should make for that patch you want... I
> > have virtually no knowledge of the code in Hurd. I have cloned
> > hurd.git and unionfs.git from Savannah because I felt they were
> > relevant. Cannot find anything simple to change though (only complex
> > stuff in BUGS/TODO).
> 
> Yeah, that's why the project description mentions Hurdextras -- there
> are some translators there that really need some love...
> 
> I couldn't come up with anything simple that is more closely related to
> this task; so the idea was just to do *some* translator hacking, as this
> will definitely be necessary for the package manager.
> 

Is there a Git repository for hurdextras? I only find a CVS repo at
Savannah which appears to be ancient.

> Otherwise, I just remembered that there is another tool in need for some
> love: the Hurd "ls" has some rather obvious shortcomings. Probably
> should be added to some todo list...
> 

This is probably a stupid question, but where can I find the code? I did
"find . -name '*ls*'" and "find . -name '*list*'" in the Hurd sources,
but no results. I also looked in coreutils sources, but there seems to
be nothing Hurd specific there.

/Patrik

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