On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:50:21 +0200 Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de> wrote: > > Please note that due to your insistence on the simplicity (and > buggyness) of xapt it is in no way a replacement for apt-cross. It does > not work for anything but pbuilder. > > If you want it to replace apt-cross then some fixing has to be done. xapt doesn't care about the status of already installed packages (at least, not permanently), so it redoes the work it did last time but that is not a bug which can be fixed as it is precisely this kind of calculation that lead to all the bugs in apt-cross (resulting from the renaming of packages when making them cross-build compatible). This is likely to make things awkward when cross-building on a fast moving platform like Debian unstable but then apt-cross could never reliably cope with unstable either and xapt will at least cope with whatever mix of suites users want to select whereas apt-cross was completely bust if more than one suite was in the apt-cache policy. apt-cross is going away - there is nothing now that can prevent this - and xapt is the only candidate for that functionality. xapt was designed not to be a drop-in replacement for apt-cross but it can do the core functionality that people needed from apt-cross without the extra stuff which caused all the old bugs. It is not a question of replacing apt-cross. It is a question of coping with the imminent removal of apt-cross by providing something that at least does the simple bits. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/
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