Re: Bug#792281: texlive-latex-base: not Multi-Arch: foreign
+++ Norbert Preining [2015-09-23 23:17 +0900]:
> Hi Johannes, dear all
>
> thanks for your explanations, that helped a lot.
>
> I have now made the following test:
>
> > - install a package in a foreign architecture that depends on texlive-binaries
>
> Namely, install xdvik-ja:i386 on a amd64 system with the test packages
> being available.
>
> Installation went smoothly, and now I have the following packages
> installed (packages related to TeX, with full arch specification):
> libkpathsea6:amd64
> libkpathsea6:i386
> so we see that the M-A: same worked out
> texlive-binaries:amd64
> no :i386 version is installed, although it is a
> dependency of xdvik-ja:i386
> xdvik-ja:i386
> plus some deps of texlive-binaries:amd64 (libptexenc etc in amd64).
>
> So at least from this side it looks fine.
Excellent - thanks for doing this - it will unbung a lot of cross-dependencies.
> > - crosscompile a source package that build depends on texlive-binaries (but I
> > hear Helmut already did that successfully)
>
> I will leave that to one of you, as I hav eno idea how to cross-compile
> something.
Just so you know:
In principle it's as simple as:
sbuild --host armhf -d unstable
or (more manually)
dpkg --add-architecture armhf
apt update
apt-get build-dep -aarmhf $package
dpkg-buildpackage -aarmhf
But there are still a number of gotchas in practice so we will indeed
test this for you, using the repo below.
> In case you want to test the current status, please use
> deb http://www.preining.info/debian/ texlive multiarch
> deb-src http://www.preining.info/debian/ texlive multiarch
> I will add packages for src:texlive-base soon(er or later - I am having
> a intercontinental travel ahead tomorrow morning)
Wookey
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