On 2008-03-25 22:13 +1300, Ravi Chemudugunta wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I have had a lot of trouble just even getting started, my efforts have > so far been unsucessful, and I am hoping that posting here, someone > will be able to tell me what I am doing wrong. I have access to a > Ubuntu Gutsy Machine; so I strapped Debian Etch, mounted the proc file > system, bind mounted the dev filesystem and chrooted into the system. > > apt-get install emdebian-tools > > package not found, hmm ... so I checked the /etc/apt/sources.list, it > looked ok - I added the US mirror just to be on the safe side, tried > again! it didn't work ... > > Somewhere else on the wiki, there is a mention of using sid, so I try > to strap sid, it gets broken halfway - I figure here is something > wrong upstream, so strapped etch again, went into the apt/sources.list > and changed etch to sid (good idea?) I did a apt-get update, and > emdebian-tools shows up in the cache (is this normal ? emdebian-tools > only existing in the sid repositories).
Yes, emdebian-tools is quite new and thus is not in the current stable release (etch). You need to be using at least testing, and preferably sid. You should have debootstrapped a lenny or sid chroot, rather than try and update to them. Sorry this wasn't clear. If there is a place you were following instructions from where it should have said this then please point it out (or edit wiki pages) to save those coming after you from this confusion. > I was wondering if there's a online emdebian 'playground' that I can > use to try some simple things like cross compiling packages (pruning > dependencies, removing documentation etc.) ? You mean somewhere you could ssh into and run the emdebian tools? No, there isn't, but it's an interesting idea. Anyone wish to offer such a machine? I will have a spare server here in the next few months once everything is migrated off it. Perhaps this could be set up on that. > (btw lurking in the chatrooms, there seems to be no one alive =) It was the easter holiday in the UK so maybe everyone was elsewhere? I know I was :-) (snow! sledging!) Wookey -- Principal hats: Balloonz - Toby Churchill - Aleph One - Debian http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
