Hi Johannes, hi Bastien, On Sun, 31 Jan 2016 01:53:34 +0100, Johannes Schauer <jo...@debian.org> wrote: > Quoting Bastien ROUCARIES (2016-01-31 00:49:14) > > Could you document on wiki how can we begin as a package manager. For > > instance I could not achieve to parse > > http://bootstrap.debian.net/cross_all/imagemagick.html > > I apologize. Since I wrote the software it is hard for me to put myself into > the shoes of someone who is not familiar with the matter. I would very much > welcome if any questions about the text or tables or tips of how to improve > the presentation could be directed to me so that I can fix the website.
I'll give it a shot... (And add this later to the wiki.)
As I understand it, the page lists *dependency* problems which prevent:
* cross-building imagemagick
* using imagemagick's packages as build-dependencies when cross-building
The first table lists all the binary packages which prevent cross-compilation
involving imagemagick. This tells you where you need to look if you want to
fix things so that imagemagick can be cross-built and/or used for
cross-compiling.
The second table lists the same information but in more detail. In each line,
imagemagick's packages' involvement is highlighted in green. To determine
issues preventing imagemagick from being cross-compiled, look for it in the
third column ("packages with (possibly transitive) conflicting
dependencies"); this shows that getting imagemagick to cross-compile involves
fixing perl (and perl-base) so that it works in multi-arch contexts. Anything
else is a situation where one of imagemagick's packages' dependencies
prevents it being used for cross-compiling; fixing this might involve
amending imagemagick's dependencies, or it might involve fixing the
conflicting package. For example, hhvm can't be cross-compiled because it
build-depends, directly and indirectly (via imagemagick), on libfreetype6-dev
(which contains /usr/bin/freetype-config and is therefore not multi-arch
co-installable).
I hope that I got that all right and that it clarifies things a little!
Regards,
Stephen
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