Hello all, We are developing a design for a Debian-based SDK distribution, targetting embedded systems.
The SDK will be installed on a x86 host, using the dpkg utility. to install a set of binary packages, part of them for different architecture (powerpc) (the so-called target packages). By design, the SDK should be able to be installed to arbitrary directory, and should not interact with the host' /var/lib/dpkg database. We are thinking of "dpkg --root=<dir>", to install target-depended packages to. Will this work? I guess, dpkg will complain about wrong architecture of the powerpc packages? Can this be worked around with --force-architecture? Any other ways? Another question - when installing/removig the packages for different architecture, the scripts should not be allowed to be executed - being chrooted to dir pointed to with "--root=" the execution would try to execute powerpc binaries on x86 host. Is it possible to disable scripts processing in dpkg? Thanks in advance. (Could you please reply me directly - I'm a Debian newbie and not (yet) subscribed to this mailing list.) Regards, Sergei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
