Re: Cross-architecture package installs

2013-02-12 Thread Tim Kientzle
>>> I'm working on tools to build ARM system images. >>> Usually, these tools run on x86, which creates a problem >>> for packages. >> >>> 1) Pre-install/post-install scripts. >>> >>> These obviously don't work since the DESTDIR >>> is for a different architecture. > >> This is imho the main

Re: Cross-architecture package installs

2013-02-10 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 06:20:22AM -0700, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 22:34 -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: > > I'm working on tools to build ARM system images. > > Usually, these tools run on x86, which creates a problem > > for packages. > > > > I would like to install packages onto the

Re: Cross-architecture package installs

2013-02-06 Thread Tim Kientzle
On Feb 5, 2013, at 10:55 PM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 10:34:18PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: >> I'm working on tools to build ARM system images. >> Usually, these tools run on x86, which creates a problem >> for packages. > >> 1) Pre-install/post-install scripts. >> >>

Re: Cross-architecture package installs

2013-02-06 Thread Ian Lepore
On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 22:34 -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: > I'm working on tools to build ARM system images. > Usually, these tools run on x86, which creates a problem > for packages. > > I would like to install packages onto the image as it's built. > So I've been experimenting with variations of >

Re: Cross-architecture package installs

2013-02-05 Thread Mark Linimon
On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 10:34:18PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: > I'm working on tools to build ARM system images. > Usually, these tools run on x86, which creates a problem > for packages. fwiw, before the intrusion 3 months ago, I had been able to build native ARM packages with a loaned system. N

Re: Cross-architecture package installs

2013-02-05 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 10:34:18PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: > I'm working on tools to build ARM system images. > Usually, these tools run on x86, which creates a problem > for packages. First Yes cross-installation of packages is something we highly want in pkgng and is plan since the beginning,

Cross-architecture package installs

2013-02-05 Thread Tim Kientzle
I'm working on tools to build ARM system images. Usually, these tools run on x86, which creates a problem for packages. I would like to install packages onto the image as it's built. So I've been experimenting with variations of pkg -c add I'm running into a few problems but I think they can