On Wed, 06 Nov 2002, Stephen Gran wrote:
> 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.
Thanks for the information. I'll give it a try. One last question: how
much space does the chroot environment consume on the hard drive? Take
the woody distribution as an example, if you could.
-- Robert
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