Comment 17 for bug 188564

Hi,

Here is the procedure to generate Debian build chroots on amd64, for both amd64 and i386.

# for amd64
debootstrap --variant=buildd SUITE TARGETDIR http://localhost:9999/debian
# With SUITE=sid,squeeze,lenny
# example:
debootstrap --variant=buildd sid /tmp/sid-chroot http://localhost:9999/debian

# still on amd64, to generate i386 chroots:
debootstrap --variant=buildd --arch=i386 SUITE TARGETDIR http://localhost:9999/debian

Chroots for lenny, squeeze and sid are useful. If that's too much, you could drop the squeeze one. Most users of squeeze won't mind installing a few packages from sid if necessary.

There's no lpia architecture on Debian.

After that, the chroots can probably be managed the same way as the Ubuntu chroots.