Re: do we have a potato box?
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 12:27:05PM -0500, "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@quickfur.yi.org> was heard to say:
> Just wondering -- does Debian have a potato box somewhere that I can test
> my packages on? I've just received a bug report on the potato version of
> one of my packages, and I *think* the latest source fixes it; but I need
> to test it to make sure. (Also, if I want to upload to stable, I've to
> compile it on potato, right?)
You could install a system for chroot use if you have a few hundred
megabytes free..that's probably the easiest thing for most cases. Usually
just untaring base.tar.gz, chrooting into it, and fixing a few minor things is
enough to get a working compilation environment..
Daniel
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