Re: How to improve Debian security, and avoid trojans...
On Mar 29, Tom Lees wrote
> On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Chris Lawrence wrote:
>
> > That's very interesting. Might work for Intel, but where are you going to
> > find trusted m68k machines with a decent-speed network connection (for this
> > sort of project, I don't think modem speeds will cut it)?
>
> Can't it be cross-compiled on an Intel machine?
Sure, if the package is set up to be cross-compilable. dpkg-cross has been
created to automate this somewhat, dunno how well it works (since
cross-compiling Debian packages for Intel on m68k would be kind of silly,
given the scarcity of packagers with m68k only :-)
Chris
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