Comment 20 for bug 188564

Hi Lucas, am new to this, i have never maintained a chroot, could you point
me to where i can get more info about it.Also i have been building packages
for myself using checkinstall.I really want to help.
Thanks and regards.

2009/9/12 Ondrej Certik <email address hidden>

> 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
>
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