Re: dchroot (?) on developer machines

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

James Troup <james@nocrew.org> cum veritate scripsit:
> > Ideally, I'd like to do what buildd does, but without uploading a
> > possibly broken package first....
> 
> Unless you're testing something architecture specific, you're probably
> better off testing this locally.  You can use debootstrap to create a
> chroot, strip it down to essential+build-essential then running
> 'dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -r<gain root> -B' is about as close as you
> can trivially get.  (See also, dev-ref, chapter 8.1)

Try using pbuilder, which is essentially a script to do that.



regards,
	junichi

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