Re: mirrormagic on powerpc
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 11:37:05PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
> Is it? I've never done that before. Do I just have to have to download the
> .dsc and .changes files to my computer after building for signing? I have
> to use chroot to fulfil build-dependencies, right? What's the procedure for
> this?
>
> Besides, chroot doesn't work for me on voltaire:
>
> dparsons@voltaire:~$ mkdir mirroot
> dparsons@voltaire:~$ /usr/sbin/chroot ~/mirroot/ apt-get install
> libsdl-image1.2-dev
> /usr/sbin/chroot: cannot change root directory to /home/dparsons/mirroot/:
> Operation not permitted
>
> Or maybe I'm using it wrong?
Gotta be root to use chroot.
Besides, you can't use chroot that way. There's nothing in the chroot
if you do that - no apt, for instance.
> Are you sure that's what voltaire is for? I certainly don't have root
> access to voltaire to install the sdl libraries myself!
Voltaire is a public access machine. You can't install packages, and
you can't chroot randomly; you're supposed to ask debian-admin for
them. You can debug problems and rebuild packages with fakeroot,
however, which is what I meant by "what it is for".
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Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer
Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team
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