+++ Norbert Preining [2015-09-23 23:17 +0900]: > Hi Johannes, dear all > > thanks for your explanations, that helped a lot. > > I have now made the following test: > > > - install a package in a foreign architecture that depends on > > texlive-binaries > > Namely, install xdvik-ja:i386 on a amd64 system with the test packages > being available. > > Installation went smoothly, and now I have the following packages > installed (packages related to TeX, with full arch specification): > libkpathsea6:amd64 > libkpathsea6:i386 > so we see that the M-A: same worked out > texlive-binaries:amd64 > no :i386 version is installed, although it is a > dependency of xdvik-ja:i386 > xdvik-ja:i386 > plus some deps of texlive-binaries:amd64 (libptexenc etc in amd64). > > So at least from this side it looks fine.
Excellent - thanks for doing this - it will unbung a lot of cross-dependencies. > > - crosscompile a source package that build depends on texlive-binaries > > (but I > > hear Helmut already did that successfully) > > I will leave that to one of you, as I hav eno idea how to cross-compile > something. Just so you know: In principle it's as simple as: sbuild --host armhf -d unstable or (more manually) dpkg --add-architecture armhf apt update apt-get build-dep -aarmhf $package dpkg-buildpackage -aarmhf But there are still a number of gotchas in practice so we will indeed test this for you, using the repo below. > In case you want to test the current status, please use > deb http://www.preining.info/debian/ texlive multiarch > deb-src http://www.preining.info/debian/ texlive multiarch > I will add packages for src:texlive-base soon(er or later - I am having > a intercontinental travel ahead tomorrow morning) Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/
