Building Packages on Development Machines

[Paul Serice <ugs@laci.net>]

I've  recently  opened  my  eyes  to realize  that  Debian  has  several
development machines on the internet. 

Specifically, I  would like  to upload a  Gtk-- package but,  locally, I
have had  to rebuild the  gtkmm packages in  unstable in order  to avoid
upgrading my C++ compiler which  would break a commercial package that I
need for work.

I don't think I should  upload packages built against these custom gtkmm
libraries. 

So, is it possible to logon  to pandora and build these packages without
having root access.  Is that the purpose of the fakeroot package? 

Also,  if I  could build  packages on  kubrick and  faure, then  I could
easily verify that my packages build  and work properly on the alpha and
sparc architectures.


Thanks,
Paul Serice