[Mingw-cross-env-list] How to put MXE repos into debian sources.list

[pjfarley3]

Apologies, I forgot to use "Reply All" and this was sent only to Gerardo.  
Forwarding to the list for completeness.

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden <address@hidden> 
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2019 11:42 AM
To: 'Gerardo Ballabio' <address@hidden>
Subject: RE: [Mingw-cross-env-list] How to put MXE repos into debian 
sources.list

Thanks, that seemed to sort of work.  I got some warnings and one "404 Not 
Found" message from apt update though, see pasted messages below.

Should I be concerned about any of those messages?

Peter

APT UPDATE Messages:

$ sudo apt-get update
Ign:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease
Get:2 http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates InRelease 
[94.3 kB]
Get:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-updates InRelease [91.0 kB]
Ign:4 http://pkg.mce.cc/repos/apt stretch InRelease
Ign:5 http://pkg.mce.cc/repos/apt stretch Release
Ign:6 http://pkg.mce.cc/repos/apt stretch/main amd64 Packages
Hit:7 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch Release
Ign:8 http://pkg.mce.cc/repos/apt stretch/main all Packages
Ign:9 http://pkg.mce.cc/repos/apt stretch/main Translation-en_US
Ign:10 http://pkg.mce.cc/repos/apt stretch/main Translation-en
Ign:6 http://pkg.mce.cc/repos/apt stretch/main amd64 Packages
Ign:8 http://pkg.mce.cc/repos/apt stretch/main all Packages
Ign:9 http://pkg.mce.cc/repos/apt stretch/main Translation-en_US
Ign:10 http://pkg.mce.cc/repos/apt stretch/main Translation-en
Ign:6 http://pkg.mce.cc/repos/apt stretch/main amd64 Packages
Ign:8 http://pkg.mce.cc/repos/apt stretch/main all Packages
Ign:9 http://pkg.mce.cc/repos/apt stretch/main Translation-en_US
Ign:10 http://pkg.mce.cc/repos/apt stretch/main Translation-en
Ign:6 http://pkg.mce.cc/repos/apt stretch/main amd64 Packages
Ign:8 http://pkg.mce.cc/repos/apt stretch/main all Packages
Ign:9 http://pkg.mce.cc/repos/apt stretch/main Translation-en_US
Ign:10 http://pkg.mce.cc/repos/apt stretch/main Translation-en
Ign:6 http://pkg.mce.cc/repos/apt stretch/main amd64 Packages
Ign:8 http://pkg.mce.cc/repos/apt stretch/main all Packages
Ign:9 http://pkg.mce.cc/repos/apt stretch/main Translation-en_US
Ign:10 http://pkg.mce.cc/repos/apt stretch/main Translation-en
Err:6 http://pkg.mce.cc/repos/apt stretch/main amd64 Packages
  404  Not Found
Ign:8 http://pkg.mce.cc/repos/apt stretch/main all Packages
Ign:9 http://pkg.mce.cc/repos/apt stretch/main Translation-en_US
Ign:10 http://pkg.mce.cc/repos/apt stretch/main Translation-en Fetched 185 kB 
in 2s (92.5 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done
W: The repository 'http://pkg.mce.cc/repos/apt stretch Release' does not have a 
Release file.
N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore 
potentially dangerous to use.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration 
details.
E: Failed to fetch 
http://pkg.mce.cc/repos/apt/dists/stretch/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not 
Found
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones 
used instead.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerardo Ballabio <address@hidden>
> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2019 3:05 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: mingw-cross-en. <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] How to put MXE repos into debian 
> sources.list
> 
> I think it should be:
> deb http://pkg.mxe.cc/repos/apt stretch main
> 
> Gerardo
> 
> 
> Il giorno gio 10 ott 2019 alle ore 06:07 <address@hidden> ha scritto:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> >
> > I am running Debian stretch (9.x x86_64, Virtualbox on Win10) and 
> > would like
> to install MXE from the repository of precompiled deb files using 
> apt-get rather than recompiling everything I need.
> >
> >
> >
> > How do I write the “deb” line in sources.list to correctly access 
> > that repository
> please?
> >
> >
> >
> > I tried these:
> >
> >
> >
> > deb http://pkg.mxe.cc main
> >
> > deb http://pkg.mxe.cc/repos main
> >
> > deb http://pkg.mxe.cc/repos/apt main
> >
> >
> >
> > But none of those worked, I got syntax errors from apt search:
> >
> >
> >
> > E: Malformed entry 8 in list file /etc/apt/sources.list (Component)
> >
> > E: The list of sources could not be read.
> >
> >
> >
> > TIA for any help you can provide.
> >
> >
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >