Re: staying in stable but compiling for sid
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 05:33:29PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> I want to run software only from Stable (ie Etch) when I am doing
> non-debian related work. However, when I am doing debian related work
> (ex :- fixing some bugs in the BTS) I want to work in unstable (ex :-
> compile packages for sid). Is this kind of think possible?
You have several choices here:
* Use pbuilder to setup a build environment.
"heavyweight" but simple.
* Use chroots for building.
simple and well understood.
These two choices suffer in that you can't get a graphical
environment within them. So if you build a package for sid
which used Xorg you couldn't test it.
To solve that problem you could look at using something else:
* Xen
Complex to setup perhaps, but flexible.
* Qemu
Simple to setup, but may be too slow.
Steve
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