Packaging problems with armel-cross-toolchain-base

[Loïc Minier]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> sed -i -e "s/^binutils/armel-cross-toolchain-base/g" debian/changelog; \
> sed -i -e "s/^Source: binutils/Source: armel-cross-toolchain-base/g" debian/control.in; \
> sed -i -e "s/^Source: binutils/Source: armel-cross-toolchain-base/g" debian/control; \
> 
> But this does not look right for me and require more changes in linux
> packaging as it uses changelog name as base for package names.
> 
> So help me please if you have ideas.

 Hmm that's not easy indeed

 I guess you could extend the cross-compilation logic in
 binutils/gcc-4.5/eglibc/linux etc. to allow outputting the binary
 packages with "Source: armel-cross-toolchain-base (x.y-z)" instead of
 the default.
   You can probably achieve that by creating a control file and a
 changelog file which have the right information and passing -c + -l to
 dpkg-gencontrol.

 Another way, probably less complex, is to extract and repack the .debs
 with the proper control information.

 Note that because the version of the binaries and the version of your
 source differ, your source field needs to be "Source: armel-cross
 (yourversion goes here)"

   Cheers
-- 
Loïc Minier