I'm preparing updated webpages for the www.emdebian.org website to cover the ongoing experiments with Crush, changes related to multistrap usage and general updates. Once those are committed, I'll be migrating multistrap 2.1.x out of experimental into Debian unstable and thence into Squeeze, at which point emsandbox will disappear, the emdebian-rootfs package itself will disappear (provided by multistrap) and all rootfs stuff using emdebian scripts will need to work with multistrap. (IIRC emsandbox itself hasn't worked properly for some time anyway.) Please test multistrap 2.1.3 in Debian experimental against your current usage and report bugs against the Debian package wherever there are issues. There are lots of new features in multistrap 2.1.x - most of which are only now gaining documentation. Check the updated package for example configuration files (which now include cascading support and tarball creation), see if the functionality matches your expectation and report bugs where things differ. Multistrap configuration can be as simple or as complex as you require - whenever you do report bugs, please include the entire cascade of configuration files. e.g. if there's a problem with a configuration file which includes /usr/share/multistrap/armel.conf, don't forget to specify that /usr/share/multistrap/crosschroot.conf is also included and if you've altered either of those files, include the full text in the bug report. You can get an idea of the configuration that results from a particular cascade using the --simulate option to multistrap. The output needs improvement, so ideas on what should be shown and how can also be filed as bugs. Also check out pdebuild-cross which is a new binary package from the emdebian-tools source (it does not depend on the rest of emdebian-tools) which is currently waiting in the Debian NEW queue, heading into Debian experimental. I was going to upload it to www.emdebian.org/debian but then it would replace most current installations of emdebian-tools when it is really still an experimental branch. pdebuild-cross is a very simple package, based on multistrap configuration - you can see how it works direct from the shell scripts: http://www.emdebian.org/svn/browser/current/host/trunk/emdebian-tools/branches/2.2.0/buildd The only complex part is the cross-deps hook and that's only complex because it is still using apt-cross. (Ignore D00-switch-distro-hook, that isn't used yet.) -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/
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