Re: --root flag to apt-get (to install packages elsewhere) - possible?

[Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>]

Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote:
> Þann 2006-10-01, 12:39:21 (+0200) skrifaði Tomasz Chmielewski:
> > I have another Debian system mounted in /mnt/system2.
> >
> > Now, I'd like to install some new packages there, or upgrade the whole 
> > /mnt/system2 system.
> >
> > How can I do it with apt-get?
> >
> >
> > dpkg has "--root" option, but unfortunately it's missing from apt-get.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> One idea is to run chroot (man chroot). Dont know if it will work
> though, never tried it :-)

Should run, provided you correct some network settings 
(/etc/resolv.conf, mount /proc perhaps).

The problem is, my "host" computer is x86 arch, and /mnt/system2 is mips 
arch, so chroot won't work in that case.


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