Re: Use pbuilder, Luke... (Was: cleaning up lib*-dev packages?)

[Carlo Segre <segre@iit.edu>]

On Sun, 14 May 2006, Osamu Aoki wrote:

> On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 04:40:43PM +0200, Ondrej Sury wrote:
> ...
> > > e) it's difficult to install versions of packages not available from
> > > your regular sources.list. For example if you build a new (version of a)
> > > library package and then an application that uses it and want to upload
> > > both at the same time. You probably need to set up a local apt
> > > repository, which is a pain.
> >
> > Nope, it's not :-), just add:
> >
> > BINDMOUNTS="/var/cache/pbuilder/result"
> >
> > and put hook script somewhere:
> ...
>
> This is better than my approach.
>
> Just make sure /var/cache/pbuilder/result is writable by the user
> manually if you want to sign packages.  (Currently root:root as
> installed)

even better, just put the pbuilder/result in a user-readable and writable 
volume (/home/pbuilder for example) and run pbuilder as a normal user all 
the time.

Carlo


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