On 23 February 2015 at 14:12, Ian Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
You can install armhf packages on i386 just fine. Marking the package arch:all is just nicety that would make it easily installable. And indeed, you can force that package is built on a particular architecture but then it has that architecture and the binary package control file would have to be hacked sometime during the build. Thanks Michal -- 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.
