On 02/10/2012 10:15 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Russ Allbery <r...@stanford.edu> writes: > >> For example, suppose I'm doing development on an amd64 box targeting armel >> and I want to use Kerberos libraries in my armel application. I'd like to >> be able to install the armel Kerberos libraries on my Debian system using >> regular package management commands, just like any other package. > > Just add a --sysroot option to the packager (that also transparently > translates symlinks), case closed.
Eaxctly: the packager should install packages inside the sysroot. This is so obvious that it's hard to believe anyone would do it differently. Andrew.