Re: Policy changes which completely break apt-cross
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:00:48AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> apt-cross cannot be fixed to work around this issue because it has to
> ignore Architecture:all packages in order to be able to resolve *any*
> dependency chains without getting into a complete mess with packages
> like debconf and perl.
Can apt-cross be made to download the Contents file and use that to
check whether a package contains useful files? 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).
The only issue this system has is that packages that do not provide any
files are not expected to depend on packages that do, which removes
metapackages like libboost-dev; this cannot be avoided easily as almost
all packages' dependency chains end at libc6.
Ignoring arch:all -dev packages is also a problem with header-only C++
libraries, such as large parts of Boost and libasio; both of these are
handled fine in the cross repo as I ignore the Architecture field and
just look at the file list.
Simon
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