Zumbi's buildcross update has allowed the emdebian toolchains to be updated. All previous versions in emdebian unstable have migrated to testing and the new packages have been added to unstable. (When Etch is released, packages in testing will migrate to stable.) There is a new script (buildcross-install) in svn/tools/repo/trunk which handles the inclusion of buildcross binaries into the repository so future updates will be a lot easier. Getting this working has required a new permanent directory on the server too - foo/emdebian/sqlite/ which handles not just the sqlite databases but also the local apt caches for the relevant architectures. The presence of the sqlite directory is a hint at the second part of this update, a new WWW interface to the emdebian repositories will be available once the site updates. Initially, only toolchain packages can be searched but the output is generated from a live sqlite database that is updated by buildcross-install so the data is always current. This is a big bonus over packages.d.o which can take several days to complete the changes resulting from a package upload. Scripts exist to handle the target packages in the same manner but that database is currently empty. (I've got a few problems to sort out in the glibc cross-build before libc6 and tzdata can be uploaded as the first packages). The target package database will be updated by using the .changes file passed to dput, although this has been tested it has not been activated just yet. Once finished, the database will be updated as soon as a target package is uploaded. Search pages follow the general layout of a Debian package page with slight differences. Having live data does make for longer URL's but not impossibly long, each query requires three pieces of data, the package name, the distro (testing|unstable) and the architecture. Scripts are documented and there are README files in relevant locations - there are a number of outstanding issues and 'gotchas' so please take time to read the README when going through the scripts. :-) -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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