On Sun, 2015-02-22 at 18:55 +0200, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: > We might want to push sunxi-tools into more Linux distributions than > just Debian and Fedora. And the maintainers of these distributions > could be not very much impressed with the current quality of the > sunxi-tools build process :)
At least from my PoV as the Debian maintainer it's not so bad, mostly because there isn't very much of it and it's pretty simple/basic. The biggest issue from the Debian PoV is the binaries contained in the release -- Debian cannot (or does not want to) ship any binary which is not rebuilt as part of the package build, so I can't just use them. Rebuilding those binaries is hard because sadly cross-compilers are still a WIP in Debian and ensuring that an Arch:all package is built on a specific architecture (as someone in this thread suggested) is not easily achieved. I could just do each upload containing armhf binaries instead of relying on the buildd network, but that's just a workaround and in any case I prefer to do source only uploads where possible. I must confess that I just skirted the issue by not shipping the contents of the bin directory or recompiling the things which needed cross compiling. The package still provides the fel tool, the fex compiler and sunxi-bootinfo which is useful enough to be worth doing IMHO even if it lacks some of the handy dev tools. Once cross-compiling is sorted out in Debian I'll probably revisit shipping that stuff. Ian. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
