The parameter -chroot-build
Justin Pryzby wrote:
> Daniel, what do you mean by "tainted"? Just that the installed
> packages work the same as the ones that would be installed in the
> chroot? This doesn't seem like a big restriction or something that
> would inhibit or restrict utility by "normal people".
if you build an etch distribution on a sid system, your etch squashfs
image would get build with the mksquashfs from sid.
by building the binary image inside the chroot makes the build self
contained; and avoiding any possible messup with to new (or in the other
direction, to old) software and their changes/incompatibilities etc.
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