Re: lots of -cross packages in the repo mirror

Hi,

2011/6/15 Wookey <[email protected]>:
> I just set up a new cross-build chroot and noticed that using
> deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/emdebian/toolchains unstable main
>
> the repo contains:
>
> zlib1g-*-cross
> where * is
> hppa|ia64|m68k|mips|mipsel|powerpc|powerpcse|s390|sh4|sparc|sparc64
>
> and
> dpkg-*-cross
> xz-utils-*-cross
> perl-base-*-cross
> libselinux1-*-cross
> libbz2-1.0-*-cross
> coreutils-*-cross
> zlib1g-dev-*-cross
> where * is
> alpha|armel|armhf|hppa|ia64|m68k|mips|mipsel|powerpc|s390|sparc|sparc64
>
> I don't think any of those should be there - is there a good reason for
> them?

I think that is on testing/unstable, all those dependencies are part
of xapt install brute-force dragged in when building cross toolchains.

> Also none of emdebian-armel-toolchain, gcc-4.3-arm-linux-gnueabi,
> gcc-4.4-arm-linux-gnueabi, or gcc-4.5-arm-linux-gnueabi, or
> gcc-4.6-arm-linux-gnueabi are installable due to libgcc1-armel-cross
> depending on gcc-4.6-arm-linux-gnueabi-base (= 4.6.0-7) but only
> 4.6.0-11 and gcc-4.6-arm-linux-gnueabi: Depends: libgcc1-armel-cross
> (>= 1:4.6.0-11) but 1:4.6.0-7 is to be installed.
>
> (usual problem).

That's a problem of buildcross daily run, failing to build latest...
i.e., http://emdebian.org/~zumbi/toolchain/sid/i386/

OK - I think is time to fix that.

> The libgcc1 thing is fatal, but I thought we nobbled the
> gcc-4.6-arm-linux-gnueabi-base dep in order to make this mess a little
> simpler? (althogh I see it is both a dir and a few readme/copyright
> files now, so maybe some of that is necessary).
>
> Reverting to deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/emdebian/toolchains testing main
> and installing gcc-4.4-arm-linux-gnueabi works fine.

That's even a surprise that it works fine on testing.

Cheers,
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