Re: Transition from dpkg to GNU install-info

2009-03-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Do, 12 Mär 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Relying on the order inside PATH is too fragile IMO. If you want to have > > the binary as install-info directly, you'll have to wait until > > install-info is not used any more by debian packages, i.

Re: [RFC] [Cross Toolchain] Multiarch and sysrooted toolchain

2009-03-13 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 07:54:49PM +0100, Hector Oron wrote: > > install anything but libraries and headers into /usr/ -- so I > > don't think there is a pressing need to replicate a filesystem hierarchy > > standard below a triplet directory. > That is what GNU people expect when building c

Re: [RFC] [Cross Toolchain] Multiarch and sysrooted toolchain

2009-03-13 Thread Hector Oron
Hello Simon, > As far as I've understood, --with-sysroot gives the path to the target OS > installation so the build can run "fixincludes" and add it to the search > paths; since it should work with a largely unmodified snapshot of the > target OS, they are pretty tolerant with the directory layou

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Re: [RFC] [Cross Toolchain] Multiarch and sysrooted toolchain

2009-03-13 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, > >, since > > they have entirely different objectives > Not entirely different - the objective for the packaging tools is > actually the same, to have packages install cleanly without changes on > systems with a different architecture triplet. I'm not sure this can be achieved at all, as we

Re: [RFC] [Cross Toolchain] Multiarch and sysrooted toolchain

2009-03-13 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, >>> , and there is generally no need to >>> install anything but libraries and headers into /usr/ -- so I >>> don't think there is a pressing need to replicate a filesystem hierarchy >>> standard below a triplet directory. > >> True, however, that is not a sufficient reason to not >> move

Re: Transition from dpkg to GNU install-info

2009-03-13 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi all, On Fr, 13 Mär 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > That looks almost right. I hope Guillem can confirm that it's ok for him > as well. That would be great. > > 1) /usr/sbin/install-info from dpkg > > this one will do: > > . if called with absolute path, warn the user to use > > /usr/bi

Re: Transition from dpkg to GNU install-info

2009-03-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Norbert Preining wrote: > > The Breaks: added to dpkg ensures that info browsers have the right > > dependency on install-info. That's enough, there's no reason to die. > > Ok, who is going to write the dpkg install-info wrapper? I just wrote it. I had to do it in C otherwise

Re: Transition from dpkg to GNU install-info

2009-03-13 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Raphael, thanks a lot for the work. On Fr, 13 Mär 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > I just wrote it. I had to do it in C otherwise I couldn't do the check > on how it's called. Ok, fine. > > Why? What would change? info-browsers (see below) should depend on > > install-info, but if they don't w

Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

2009-03-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
[ Bcced to -devel and -dpkg, discussion should happen on -policy ] Hello, we have an unfortunate situation where the practice in dpkg-buildpackage and the policy do not match fully. I tried to summarize the problem here: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/DebianRules I want to resolve this probl