Re: crosstool-NG Debian packaging

[Chris Packham <Chris dot Packham at alliedtelesis dot co dot nz>]

On 02/11/2016 09:41 AM, Bryan Hundven wrote:
> Chris,
>
>> On Feb 10, 2016, at 12:31 PM, Chris Packham <Chris.Packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> I'm also interested in the possibility of generating debian packages for
>> the toolchains themselves.
>
> I have no interests in adding package manager support in crosstool-NG for produced toolchains.
> If you need such support, create a wrapper script that calls crosstool-ng and creates a package.
>

Yes that was my intention. We'd need to slip in our kernel headers and 
libc so it would be custom regardless.

>> We're in the process of updating our cross toolchain(s) and being able
>> to distribute .deb files to our developers is quite attractive. Is
>> anyone looking at such a capability? If not any pointers?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chris Packham.
>>
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Bryan
>


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