[Debootloaders-devel] r168 - trunk/emile/debian

[Aurélien GÉRÔME]

On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 08:29:32PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > A requirement from the section 2.2.1 of the policy declares that
> > packages in main must not require a package outside of main for
> > compilation or execution.
> 
> There is no requirement for this package.

I do not understand. What do mean by that? Do you mean it is not
covered by the policy?

> > Nevertheless, the package m68k-linux-gcc is not in main. Moreover,
> > emile-bootblocks is an arch-all package and, as such, it must be
> > buildable on all architectures Debian supports.
> 
> That's not true.

Can you point me to the binary package? I checked, but I did not
find it.

> > For instance, just imagine an amd64 build daemon auto-building the
> > all-arch from source uploads only...
> 
> Autobuilding already works. Look at your Packages file.

I also do not understand that.

> There is no reason why an autobuilder would need to build arch:all
> packages. They don't do that, and they won't do that. Trust me, I have
> experience in that matter :)

Sure, I trust you, but I thought there were plans to do source-only
uploads, i.e. without any binary packages arch-any or arch-all.
Therefore, the arch-all binary packages would be auto-built on a
specific buildd, right?

> > The miboot source package will also produce at least an arch-all
> > package. We will need 2 cross-compilers for m68k-unknown-elf and
> > powerpc-ibm-aix4.1 targets. However, from my experimentations, I
> > expect we can safely use m68k-linux-elf instead of m68k-unknown-elf
> > (i.e. the standard linux m68k cross-compiler), because miBoot first
> > stage is actually quite the same as EMILE first stage.
> > 
> > Hence, the miBoot team will package and maintain a set of
> > cross-compilers [1] which can be shared with EMILE when it is not built
> > on m68k.
> 
> If miBoot can't be built on at least one architecture without any
> crosscompilers, then this is probably a sane decision (although I
> wouldn't want to have to do that). But that doesn't make this a bug in
> emile...

The packages are quite similar, except miBoot will use 2
cross-compilers, but it is also arch-all.

Cheers,
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