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Comment 19 for bug 188564

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Ondrej Certik (ondrej-certik) wrote : Re: [Bug 188564] Re: Build also packages for Debian in PPA's

Hi Lucas!

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Lucas Nussbaum
<email address hidden> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for this. Unfortunately I don't have time to work on this.

I hope someone can give it a shot.

Ondrej