setting up a backports environment

[John Dong]

meh, either way is fine... I've just never really caught on to pbuilder...
At times I appreciate the speed of the unpack-and-hack approach to figuring
out what it takes for a package to start compiling...

I've been playing with Device Mapper's Copy-on-Write functionality for
making all changes to the chroot temporary.

On 11/30/05, Marc Wiriadisastra <strikeforce at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
> > On 11/30/05, John Dong <jdong at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >> google ubp-build.py....
> >>
> >> I run ubp-build.py inside a chroot, which is cleaned fairly frequently.
> >> As
> >> long as you don't do stupid things to the chroot, it'll stay fairly
> >> clean...
> >
> > How about using PBuilder? it guarantees a clean chroot, and is really
> > handy to use. See http://wiki.ubuntu.com/PbuilderHowto for
> > instructions
> >
> +1 from me since I've never had any issues with pbuilder and it's create
> for testing out dependancy's.
>
>
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