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Re: Testing pbuilt packages



Brett Cundal <bcundal@cundal.net> writes:

> On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:22:51AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>> On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Volker Sturm wrote:
>> > if I want to get into software development for Debian: Is it recommended to
>> > stay with stable or upgrade to sid?
>> 
>> If you have to ask, stay with stable.  You can use pbuilder to build
>> unstable packages.
>
> On a side note - can anyone describe a good way to test such packages
> once they're built? I'm running testing and pbuilding against
> unstable; with the current libc issue, I can't install my packages.
>
> pbuilder has a login feature that allows me to get a shell inside the
> chroot, but I'm not sure how to get my package in there. I can copy it
> in from outside, but I belive the location of the chroot changes every
> time. It looks like all the hooks get called inside the chroot, so I
> suspect that won't work. Is there some other way to handle this
> automatically?

You'll probably find it easier to just setup and use a regular old
chroot using debootstrap.  See Colin Walters' guide:

http://people.debian.org/~walters/chroot.html

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