On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:56:31AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a tool to quickly download, for a given architecture, a given > package & its dependancies? > > I've been doing a lot of cross development & find myself downloading > lots of packages using the Debian web interface. Good as Debian's web > interface is, this is tedious. > > Investigating apt-get, I found: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=197424 but I can't > figure out how to stipulate an architecture to aptitude (-a powerpc, or > something) or download depended packages. > > I need a tool to quickly download (& optionally extract, in one step) > packages for a stipulated architecture, & there dependancies. Anyone > know of a solution?
Maybe you can setup a chroot with debootstrap, and fake it out to think it's using a different arch than the native one for your machine? Alternatively, it wouldn't be terribly difficult to write a script to do this. > I thought that Debian, with a repository of cross architecture > binaries, & the oldest package tools, would be great for cross > development - but thus far, it's been surprisingly difficult! Well, I doubt many people have the need you've described. Multiarch support would probably make this easy, but multiarch isn't here yet. -- Blast you and your estrogenical treachery! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
