[Freemint-list] PPA for Ubuntu cross-tools

[Jason Fergus]

On Sun, 2017-06-11 at 18:26 +0200, Vincent Rivière wrote:
> On 11/06/2017 at 01:42, Miro Kropáček wrote:
> > Thanks for that push, I've updated all freemint build scripts. Now 
> > everything will work automatically, I don't need to update anything when 
> > Travis CI switches to a later Ubuntu distro.
> 
> FYI, in Travis CI scripts, it was possible to replace the hardcoded "trusty" 
> with "$(lsb_release -cs)". I did that in the previous EmuTOS script:
> https://github.com/emutos/emutos/blob/23c73a23688991a94f41aeeadd67800b65318b75/.travis/register_ap
> t_repositories.sh
> 
> But this is now useless, anyway.
> 
> >   * The fact that 95% of all scripting content is downloaded from
> >     https://github.com/freemint/travis-pr made this change trivial -- just
> >     changed one file (install-cross-mint.sh) and that was it
> 
> Hehe, that's the benefit of factorization.
> 
> >   * Trouble was that I wanted to make this file (install-cross-mint.sh)
> >     universal so I specified one parameter as a distro name; so in the end I
> >     had to update every repository anyway, just removing that one single
> >     word "trusty" when calling that script ;)
> 
> If this issue was still current, you could have	solved it easily:
> - Keep your universal script with distribution as parameter
> - Create a second script which calls the previous one with the hardcoded 
> parameter. And use this one everywhere.
> 
> But there is no more need for that, anyway.
> 
I keep trying to get the time to teach myself how to code, but at least I know from fixing other
people's messes, it's never a good idea to hardcode anything :)

Speaking of distros, it looks like the Jessie packages install fine on Debian Stretch as well.  I do
have a question/comment though, has Ubuntu upgraded apt to be able to skip doing the -get?  I know
Debian Jessie, you can just do 'apt install <package>' now.  I haven't used Ubuntu in so long, I'm
not sure if the adopted that as well or not.