Re: chroot on debian hosts?
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:29:27AM -0700, Marc Singer wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 09:37:51AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:20:15PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> Quantz doesn't appear to have this program, though the source is in
> joey's home.
quantz is alioth, not a normal Debian porting machine, and it's not even
mentioned on http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi. Use merulo instead.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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