On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 04:54:13PM +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 08:30:17AM -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > > Be it as may, Debian does not require any contributor to also contribute > > > directly to Ubuntu. Ubuntu just uses a lot of work that was originally > > > done for Debian. (I do not mean that as an insult, that's the way free > > > software works.) > > > > > >> The main reason I ask that is I know Debian supports many > > >> architectures, which I don't have access to. I was mainly just > > >> interested in maintaining the AMD64 arch. Is this possible? > > Works in QEMU with couple hiccups. Emulation speed is slow though.
Besides, there are a few nifty tools which manage all of that stuff nicely for you (including QEMU). Have a go at schroot: it allows to cross build packages for other arches (and versions) in a lightweight manner, as long as your host kernel doesn't diverge too much from your target's. Cheers -- tomás
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