This one time, at band camp, Robert James Kaes said: > Hi, > Hopefully this will be a quick question: is it possible to build a woody > debian package on a "testing" machine? My server is at woody, but I don't > really want to build packages on a production machine. > > Any information you can provide would be helpful. > -- Robert Look into pbuilder - it's designed for doing stuff exactly like this. I have a testing machine as my day to day desktop machine (it's also the fastest of my non-server boxes) so I use it compile things for the other boxes. pbuilder sets up a chroot environment, set to whatever distribution you tell it, and then allows you to rebuild from source for that distribution. HTH, Steve -- A diplomat's life consists of three things: protocol, Geritol, and alcohol. -- Adlai Stevenson
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