Re: Hurd substitute availability (27.5%) and next steps?

[Vincent Legoll]

Hello,

On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 10:57 PM Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> wrote:
> In terms of getting more packages building, and substitute availability,
> personally I think it would be useful to disable tests for packages for
> i586-gnu if that gets packages building. It's not ideal to not run the
> tests, but it's also difficult to investigate the failures and develop
> patches if you don't have substitutes for the software you need to do
> that (like Git for example).

Is disabling tests for a whole platform possible without patching all the
build recipes ?

> often I'll be unable to SSH in

Couldn't you get a console from a virtual serial port from the VM ?

BTW, looks like you're doing excellent work !
Thanks

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Vincent Legoll