On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 05:39:59PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 05:05:24PM -0500, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > > I'm using sourceforge's compile farm and I'd like to know how to use it to > > compile packages for unstable. They use woody. I also have an account on > > HP's testdrive systems. > > > Is there any reasonably easy way to do this? I know that the buildd's can > > take care of it, but I'd like to be able to do this myself. > > No; and, moreover, you should not be relying on machines not under your > (or Debian's) control in order to build binary packages that will be > uploaded to the Debian archive. Sourceforge has certainly been > compromised in the past, and remains a high profile target; I wouldn't > want to see it used as a conduit for getting compromised software into > Debian. > A way to compile unstable on a stable systems is like this: Run debootstrap on an unstable system, make a tarball of it and take it to the stable system unpack the tarball there and chroot into it. If there is interrest for it, I can set such tarballs for PowerPC and i386 online. Geert Stappers
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