Bug#440929: apt-cross -i fails completely if an update error happens

2007-09-05 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Wednesday 05 September 2007, Neil Williams wrote: > > apt-cross should be made smart similarly (maybe it should take that info > > from apt-get), to be able to identify the correct version of gcc. > > It does. Okay! So the focus should be on why we are receiving those xml files when there is a

Bug#440929: apt-cross -i fails completely if an update error happens

2007-09-05 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 20:23:10 +0530 Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is good. But I'd still leave that to apt-cross to decide. Unless > explicitly specified, apt-cross should be intelligent enough to figure out > the default choice. > > On a normal box, if I'm doing `apt-get in

Bug#440929: apt-cross -i fails completely if an update error happens

2007-09-05 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Wednesday 05 September 2007, Neil Williams wrote: > $ apt-cross -v -a ia64 -b gcc-4.2 > Filename: gcc-4.2_4.2.1-4_ia64.deb > FullPath: > ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gcc-4.2/gcc-4.2_4.2.1-4_ia64.deb > checking gcc-4.2_4.2.1-4_ia64.deb dependencies . . . > Calling 'dpkg-cross  -v -b

Bug#440929: apt-cross -i fails completely if an update error happens

2007-09-05 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 15:24:22 +0100 Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > apt-cross - apt support for cross compiling libraries > > *libraries* not applications and even less so complete compilers. > > > When I do a `apt-cross -a ia64 -i gcc` > > gcc is not a library - gcc-ia64-cross will no

Bug#440929: apt-cross -i fails completely if an update error happens

2007-09-05 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Wednesday 05 September 2007, Neil Williams wrote: > > Unwarranted. I suspect that this may not even be something apt-cross > can fix - it appears to be a repository/apt failure. > But such failures should be handled/ignored by apt-cross just as apt-get does. > *libraries* not applications and

Bug#440929: apt-cross -i fails completely if an update error happens

2007-09-05 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
This is good. But I'd still leave that to apt-cross to decide. Unless explicitly specified, apt-cross should be intelligent enough to figure out the default choice. On a normal box, if I'm doing `apt-get install gcc`, apt knows which is the default gcc version to be installed for the particular

Bug#440929: apt-cross -i fails completely if an update error happens

2007-09-05 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:28:56 +0530 Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: apt-cross > Version: 0.2.0 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable Unwarranted. I suspect that this may not even be something apt-cross can fix - it appears to be a repository/apt failur

Bug#440929: apt-cross -i fails completely if an update error happens

2007-09-05 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Package: apt-cross Version: 0.2.0 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Hi Neil, Here's what the manpage says for apt-cross -i: --i|--install Retrieve the architecture-specific package(s) from the Debian mirrors into the current directory. Check for depe