Re: cross-get script
On 2006-10-23 09:06 +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> On 23/10/06 03:12:10, Wookey wrote:
> >One thing that has been missing from debian for easy cross-building
> >is a simple way to download non-native packages in order to feed them
> >to dpkg-cross. I got very bored of having to run up a browser and
> >look at packages.debian.org for the right suite and arch to find the
> >actual deb name and package version and then use wget to get that.
>
> (I'd wondered about that round-a-bout process.)
>
> >which lets you do
> >cross-get <package> [arch] [suite] [mirror]
>
> By suite, you mean experimental/unstable/testing/stable?
yes
> >There is plenty of room for improvement
> >I'll check it into debian-embedded svn tomorrow.
>
> I'll start on it after Expo - unless anyone else wants to do it too...
OK. it is now at
http://buildd.emdebian.org/repos/tools/cross-get/
hack away.
Wookey
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