Re: Is there a way to preserve pbuilder chroot environment?
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 1:52 AM, Mikhail Morfikov <mmorfikov@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm new to building packages by using pbuilder tool, and I have to build
> a package multiple times before it builds successfully, or in the way
> I prefer. The most annoying part ot this is installation of
> dependencies -- each time I build a package, it has to install
> the same dependencies over and over.
Can you elaborate a bit on what you mean by "having to build a package
multiple times before it builds successfully"? With pbuilder, your
package should be able to be built with a single invocation of
pbuilder (given a .dsc) or pdebuild (when unpacked). Anything more
than that and the ftpmasters will probably consider your package to
FTBFSIASW (fail to build from source in a sane way).
About the annoying part of having to wait for pbuilder to install all
build-deps at each run, you can:
- get pbuilder to set up the chroot in a tmpfs (e.g. I actually have
/var/cache/pbuilder/build/ symlinked to /tmp, which is mounted as a
tmpfs; setting up a pbuilder chroot is blazing fast)
- use cowbuilder
- go buy and use a SSD
Any of the above options should make it far less annoying to build
your package in a clean chroot each time.
Regards,
Vincent
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