+++ Neil Williams [2010-03-27 22:54 +0000]: > It's quite possible that apt-cross won't actually be used because the > cross builds will only need to work with a handful of packages. > Instead, the adjusted source packages could specifically list the > packages to download or have some other script to manually wget the > relevant packages. (A symptom of just how little I trust apt-cross > anymore.)
I don't think that's the way to go. One of the most important aspect of our efforts has been the generality of solutions. Apt-cross has its limitations but there is nothing wrong at all with the concept of automatically satisfying cross- and tool- deps in the general case. Hopefully we can soon migrate to using apt-ma-emu to do the same job, but much better. Having to make (and thus maintain) a manual list for each package you want to cross build is a major retrograde step. Wookey -- Principal hats: iEndian - Balloonboard - Toby Churchill - Emdebian http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
