Re: cross-compiling Debian packages

[Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>]

On Tue Mar 14, 2006 at 12:41:01PM +0200, Timo Savola wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 12:15 +0300, Wartan Hachaturow wrote:
> 
> > On 3/13/06, Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi> wrote:
> > 
> > > Even then, modifying each and every debian package is a daunting
> > > process. It's easier to provide a crosscompiling solution that makes
> > > the applications not notice that they have been crosscompiled. This i
> > > what Nokia is using too ;)
> > 
> > .. on the price of having fat bunches of additional stuff installed, and relying
> > on fragile emulator ;)
> 
> Or on fragile remote executor...

fragile and with serious security problems...  Using qemu
is a much safer approach,

 -Erik

--
Erik B. Andersen             http://codepoet-consulting.com/
--This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons--