Re: crosstool-NG Debian packaging

[Bryan Hundven <bryanhundven at gmail dot com>]

Chris,


> On Feb 22, 2016, at 7:55 PM, Chris Packham <Chris.Packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz> wrote:
> 
> On 02/11/2016 10:43 AM, andrew@ncrmnt.org wrote:
>> 10 ÑÐÐÑÐÐÑ 2016 Ð., 23:32, "Chris Packham" <Chris.Packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz> ÐÐÐÐÑÐÐ:
>>> Hi Bryan, Andrew,
>>> 
>>> I see that there is some movement on packaging crosstool-NG for Debian.
>>> This is relevant to my interests and I have subscribed to your mailing
>>> list :).
>>> 
>>> Is there an open Debian bug for this? I've found a few older ones but
>>> they all seem to have timed out due to lack of interest.
>> 
>> Hi, Chris. Unfortunately, I'm not a debian maintainer and there's no open bug
>> for that in debian bugtracker. I've done the packaging for my own needs,
>> since it was waaay faster than opening a bug ;). So unless you know some debian
>> maintainers crosstool-ng won't land in debian repositories any time soon;)
>> 
> 
> So in a fit of optimism I thought I'd give submission to debian a go.
> Based on Andrew's work I've got packaging for the released 1.22.0 with
> some patches I need for my own selfish needs.
> 
> Andrew are you happy to be listed in the debian/control as the
> maintainer or do you want me to put my name in there instead (or should
> I put Bryan).
> 
> I also notice that the tarball from github[1] has some unfortunate paths
> in it, "crosstool-ng-crosstool-ng-1.22.0" which makes packaging it a bit
> of a pain (1.21.0 also seems to have the same issue).
> 
> Is there any way we can get that fixed? I have re-generated the tarball
> locally but if someone were to compare the md5sum of my tarball to the
> one from github they might think something malicious was going on.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> --
> [1] -
> https://github.com/crosstool-ng/crosstool-ng/archive/crosstool-ng-1.22.0.tar.gz

Also, it is recommended to use the source release here:

http://crosstool-ng.org/download/crosstool-ng/crosstool-ng-1.22.0.tar.bz2

As this version has autoconf ran, and is PGP/GPG signed.
http://crosstool-ng.org/#download_and_usage

Cheers,

-Bryan

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