Package: apt-cross
Version: 0.1.0
Severity: normal
Hi,
I've just tried apt-cross for the first time having previously used dpkg-cross.
It looks like it should be a very helpful tool, and my first attempt worked:
# apt-cross -a arm --install librecode-dev
(One suggestion is that it could accept "install" as well as "--install", for
more consistency with apt-get. And a -s for simulate would also be
appreciated.)
So that was OK but I soon realised that it had loaded librecode-dev for
unstable,
which has the new ABI! So I uninstalled it, which worked, and tried to install
an older version, from stable:
# apt-cross -a arm --remove librecode-dev
# apt-cross -a arm -S stable --install librecode-dev
This simply printed:
One package to install.
straight away and did nothing else.
With "-S testing" it did seem to work: it downloaded the package files and
then downloaded and installed the requested library and dependencies.
I eventually realised that I needed to do "apt-cross -a arm -S stable --update"
first. After that the --install worked fine.
So the bug is that for unstable and testing it seemed to automatically download
the package files while for stable it didn't. And/or, that without the package
files it printed only a very terse message, not "no packages files, please run
apt-cross --update".
Here is the contents of my sources.list, exluding commented-out lines, in case
it is relevent :
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable main
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main
deb http://tonelli.sns.it/pub/mplayer/etch ./
deb http://mirrors.ecology.uni-kiel.de/debian/debian-multimedia unstable main
Please excuse me if I am doing something stupid (or if you consider my
expectations unreasonable!), and thank you for this excellent tool.
Regards,
Phil.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.19
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages apt-cross depends on:
ii apt 0.6.43.3 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii binutils 2.17-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii dpkg-cross 1.28 tools for cross compiling Debian p
ii dpkg-dev 1.13.22 package building tools for Debian
ii libfile-homedir-perl 0.64-1 Get the home directory for yoursel
ii libwww-perl 5.805-1 WWW client/server library for Perl
ii sudo 1.6.8p12-5 Provide limited super user privile
apt-cross recommends no packages.
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