On Sat, 19 Apr 2014 17:36:31 -0700, Tom Lee <debian@tomlee.co> wrote: > Thanks for the detailed response Stephen, all great stuff to know. Yunqiang > Su has already been kind enough to offer up a porterbox since I sent my > earlier email. :) > > Am I right in understanding a porterbox is basically just a chrooted > environment available for remote access on a temporary basis? Pretty much, you can drop the "chrooted" since there's no definition of the kind of environment you end up in: it can be a physical machine, a VM, ... Within the environment you get access to initially you can generally create your own chroots where you can install packages etc. See https://dsa.debian.org/doc/schroot/ for details. Regards, Stephen
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