On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 21:20:47 +0100 Neil Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> In general, for a less stressful life with xapt, use a pbuilder chroot > where the cross dependencies are thrown away. This is recommended in > the xapt man page. There's a big section called Limitations in the xapt > manpage which explicitly covers this. > > If you try to use xapt to upgrade -cross dependencies in place then you > *will* get all the hassle you have thereby requested. <snip> > xapt will generally break anything where you are expecting it to > upgrade existing -cross dependencies unless you are v.v.v.v.careful. > i.e. I routinely get away with it because I wrote the xapt code but most > people won't because that would require xapt to be clever. > > Hint: never upgrade -cross dependencies. Yes, I did say never. <snip> > Don't expect it to do clever stuff and you won't be disappointed. OK, point taken. chroot, nothing clever, things will probably break otherwise. Got it :) > (If anyone thinks upgrading cross dependencies is easy, talk to some of > the people working on MultiArch cross-build toolchains and cross-arch > dependencies.) I don't think this stuff is easy, hopefully I'm not coming across otherwise. Thanks for your input and for your contributions to Emdebian / xapt, I've found both to be very useful and helpful! -Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
