Re: Chroot woody setup in 15 minutes

[Frank Belew <frb@debian.org>]

Ben Gertzfield wrote:

> > > > > > "Joey" == Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:
>     Daniel> I absent-mindedly compiled lbreakout against the X4
>     Daniel> libraries.  Doh!  The obvious solution is to install a
>     Daniel> clean build system (which I probably ought to do
>     Daniel> anyway..), but I have a number of course deadlines and
>     Daniel> midterms this week and can't get to it immediately :(
>
>     Joey> Someone else has probably already volenteered (hard to tell
>     Joey> when you're reading mail offline), but I thought I'd
>     Joey> volenteer and also point out that it takes about 15 minutes
>     Joey> to set up a base chroot system you can cleanly build
>     Joey> anything in.
>
> Joey is right. Doing a chroot woody setup really does only take
> about 15 minutes. Here's some rough notes on what I had to do
> to set one up on my potato box; I did GIMP builds there with no
> problems.
>
> 1) download base2_2.tgz
> 2) as root, untar in safe place (homedir, /usr/local/woody, whatever)
> 3) as root, chroot /usr/local/woody /bin/sh
> 4) mount proc -t proc /proc
> 5) put name servers in /etc/resolv.conf
> 6) put the REAL machine name in /etc/hostname. run hostname -F /etc/hostname. Copy /etc/hosts from real machine.
> 7) edit /etc/apt/sources.list, change stable to unstable, comment-out security.debian.org

Skip dselect, just use ``apt-get install build-essential dpkg-dev''
The reason it messes up without explicitly saying dpkg-dev is the 
whacked out stuff we had to do
to perl between 5.004 and 5.005

Doing it this way manages to skip all of standard, and just get that 
which is truly essential

After you are done installing build-essential, exit and tar this tree up 
for multiple uses

Frank aka Myth