On 5/5/06, Dirk De Groen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The Emdebian CrossDebootstrap and QemuUserEmulation Wiki pages refer to a Debian package named qemu-user-static, problem is that I can't find this package in any Debian distribution. Any idea where I can download it or how I can build a statically linked qemu.
Hi, The wiki pages above are part of a proposal to get a static qemu package for cross-debootstrapping purposes. The patch that adds such binary package was not integrated into qemu package yet (although most related patches I've sent are already in qemu 0.8.0-3). So currently you have to download and apply patches for both qemu and debootstrap (see "Requirements" section in CrossDeboostrap page for debootstrap and the notes at the top of QemuUserEmulation for qemu) and build custom .deb packages for both. As a side note, I'm working towards finding a way to avoid the conflict between qemu-user-static and scratchbox (they both use binfmt for the very same purpose). My plan is to extract the minimal functionality from scratchbox necessary to cross-debootstrap and package it separately from scratchbox, making both scratchbox-core and deboostrap depend on / suggest this package. Once this is done, I plan to send the patch to the scratchbox developers. This may take some time, given that I'm doing this on my spare time and I'm still learning scratchbox internals. Regards, -- Anderson Lizardo
