(Catching up with a number of mails on debian-boot@…) Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> (2015-03-18): > With the help of Hector Oron, we have been able to setup this on the > porterbox of 4 architectures: arm64, armel, armhf and mips. This has > been done by allowing the d-i role account on the porterboxes. As a > nice side effect, this mean that d-i people can now do/fix the setup > themselves without having to go through the buildd team. The code used > is available in the porterbox branch of the di-autobuild git. Thank you so much for that! There wasn't a need for fixing the setup yet, but that's a very thing to have. > Note that the chroots on the porterbox are created in a very similar > way than on the newer buildds (it's even done by the same script > IIRC), so the problems should be similar. For example both were > affected by bug#775136. Having build environments as close as possible to the ones actually used on buildds is great: this should ensure the amount of last minute surprises is kept at a minimum. Mraw, KiBi.
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