Package: apt-cross
Version: 0.2.0
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Hi Neil,
Here's what the manpage says for apt-cross -i:
--i|--install <packages...>
Retrieve the architecture-specific package(s) from the Debian
mirrors into the current
directory. Check for dependencies that are suitable for dpkg-cross,
download each dependency
and build, then install the package and dependencies using
dpkg-cross and dpkg -i. If
successfully installed, the temporary downloaded archives are
removed. Requires working sudo
setup and will prompt for the sudo password if necessary (if sudo is
not already cached).
When I do a `apt-cross -a ia64 -i gcc`, it'd follow all the process that
is defined above. The problem is that during an update, some of the
repositories specified in my sources.list file do not offer ia64 or
whatever. And for them, the fetch fails. Now when apt-cross proceeds
ahead, the downloaded file, in this case gcc_4.2.1-5_ia64.deb, is nothing
but an xml file with details about failures it had seen.
This thus further fails with dpkg-cross which complains that the archive
is not a debian archive.
Here's the full error:
@learner:/tmp$ apt-cross -a ia64 -i gcc
Checking dependencies: \
13 packages to install.
dpkg-deb: `binutils_2.18-1_ia64.deb' is not a debian format archive
dpkg-cross: conversion of binutils_2.18-1_ia64.deb failed.
dpkg-deb: `gcc-4.2_4.2.1-4_ia64.deb' is not a debian format archive
dpkg-cross: conversion of gcc-4.2_4.2.1-4_ia64.deb failed.
dpkg-deb: `libgcc1_4.2.1-4_ia64.deb' is not a debian format archive
dpkg-cross: conversion of libgcc1_4.2.1-4_ia64.deb failed.
dpkg-deb: `libc6.1-dev_2.6.1-1_ia64.deb' is not a debian format archive
dpkg-cross: conversion of libc6.1-dev_2.6.1-1_ia64.deb failed.
dpkg-deb: `cpp_4.2.1-5_ia64.deb' is not a debian format archive
dpkg-cross: conversion of cpp_4.2.1-5_ia64.deb failed.
dpkg-deb: `libc6.1_2.6.1-1_ia64.deb' is not a debian format archive
dpkg-cross: conversion of libc6.1_2.6.1-1_ia64.deb failed.
dpkg-deb: `libunwind7_0.98.5-8_ia64.deb' is not a debian format archive
dpkg-cross: conversion of libunwind7_0.98.5-8_ia64.deb failed.
dpkg-deb: `cpp-4.2_4.2.1-4_ia64.deb' is not a debian format archive
dpkg-cross: conversion of cpp-4.2_4.2.1-4_ia64.deb failed.
dpkg-deb: `gcc-4.2-base_4.2.1-4_ia64.deb' is not a debian format archive
dpkg-cross: conversion of gcc-4.2-base_4.2.1-4_ia64.deb failed.
dpkg-deb: `gcc_4.2.1-5_ia64.deb' is not a debian format archive
dpkg-cross: conversion of gcc_4.2.1-5_ia64.deb failed.
dpkg-deb: `linux-libc-dev_2.6.22-4_ia64.deb' is not a debian format
archive
dpkg-cross: conversion of linux-libc-dev_2.6.22-4_ia64.deb failed.
dpkg-deb: `libunwind7-dev_0.98.5-8_ia64.deb' is not a debian format
archive
dpkg-cross: conversion of libunwind7-dev_0.98.5-8_ia64.deb failed.
dpkg-deb: `libgomp1_4.2.1-4_ia64.deb' is not a debian format archive
dpkg-cross: conversion of libgomp1_4.2.1-4_ia64.deb failed.
Ritesh
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (650, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (450,
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-debian (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages apt-cross depends on:
ii apt 0.7.6 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii binutils 2.18~cvs20070812-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii dpkg-cross 1.39 tools for cross compiling Debian p
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.5 package building tools for Debian
ii libfile-homedir-perl 0.64-1 Get the home directory for yoursel
ii libwww-perl 5.805-1 WWW client/server library for Perl
ii sudo 1.6.8p12-5 Provide limited super user privile
apt-cross recommends no packages.
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