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Re: chroot on debian hosts?



On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:20:15PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote:
> (I thought I sent this, but now I cannot find it to be sure.)
> 
> I'd like to build against sid on a machine (ia64) I don't own but
> which Debian does have available.
> 
> I tried the recipe from the developer's manual using fakeroot.  It
> failed because it could not find a package.  Perhaps, this is a bug in
> debootstrap.  Is that method supposed to work?

Use dchroot to access chroots on Debian machines. You will not be able
to install packages yourself.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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