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Re: Removal of apt-cross from Squeeze is imminent



On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:16:34 +0200
Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de> wrote:

> Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> writes:
> > 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.
>
> The fix for this is quite simple as I pointed out before. You need to
> create an xapt.conf use APT_CONFIG=xapt.conf in the environment to
> avoid reading in the default apt config.
> 
> MfG
>         Goswin
> 
> PS: I could provide patches for both issues. That would add maybe 10
> lines.

In the absence of such patches, emdebian-crush 2.2.6 is now waiting in
the NEW queue, aimed at Debian experimental. Sadly, it looks like the
updated version of xapt won't make it into Squeeze so I've added the
package to www.emdebian.org/debian unstable and testing.

http://www.emdebian.org/debian/pool/main/e/emdebian-crush/

For now, this repository also contains old versions of emdebian-rootfs,
emdebian-tools, dpkg-cross, apt-cross and emdebian-grip. We might need
to sort those out.

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