Hi, On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:05:31PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> > Can apt-cross be made to download the Contents file and use that to > > check whether a package contains useful files? > No. The definition of "useful files" is only within the remit of > dpkg-cross and dpkg-cross can (and does) change the meaning of the term > without regard to apt-cross. The decision is made on the system that also runs dpkg-cross though -- so some sort of "query mode" where apt-cross asks dpkg-cross whether it would find any of the files in a given list "useful" could work (i.e. when looking at a dependency, it will extract the file list for that package from the Contents file, query dpkg-cross, and add the package to the install or the exclude set. > > This is what I'm using to > > generate the packages in "cross-repo", and that has been mostly > > successful (it even handles the "flex" package correctly). > Mostly successful is what we have currently with apt-cross, so that is > no improvement. Right, but this is about avoiding a regression. > apt-cross will continue to be mostly successful in > Squeeze and Sid for some time to come, but for those dependency chains > where it fails, the failure cannot be fixed. I'm suggesting how it could be fixed at the additional expense of downloading Contents files (or speculatively downloading packages). > This is about resolving dependencies, especially between suites. The > cross-repo stuff is single suite. If a dependency specification accepts packages from multiple suites, then it is allowed to pick any of them; if one is empty post-conversion and the other is not, then that is an error in the package's dependency specification, or in the filter used to select files, neither of which is apt-cross's responsibility. Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100629144546.ga12...@richter
