On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 16:55 +0000, David Gilbert wrote: > On 7 February 2011 16:50, Guilherme Salgado > <guilherme.salg...@linaro.org> wrote: > > In lmc we already have some code which checks if a given utility is > > present and if not, install (via apt-get) a package which provides that. > > We could extend it to check for a specific version and try to install a > > version greater or equal that (can we tell apt-get to install only if it > > finds a package whose version is greater than X?). > > > > When it fails to install, we would direct the user to the README, which > > has pointers for the things that are not available in the usual > > channels. > > Be careful about forcing the use of apt to install a newer package than is > available in the distro; please check whether there is a working qemu first in > case the user has got one from another source. > Currently the easiest way on Lucid of getting lmc > to work is to copy a qemu-arm-static binary from a natty install; not a pretty > solution but it works.
Ok, so ISTM that to keep this solution working we'll need to do something like running qemu-arm-static with no arguments and parse its output for the version string. Unless there's another way to easily trigger the bug without running something inside the chroot (I don't want to wait until we have the chroot ready to find out that the existing qemu-arm-static doesn't work). -- Guilherme Salgado <https://launchpad.net/~salgado>
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