Re: What is the best way to manage 3rd party debs?
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 12:01 -0400, Steve C. Lamb wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 09:12:01AM +0200, Aniruddha wrote:
> > I'm not worried about purposeful malicious intent (otherwise I would
> > just use a chroot). I want to prevent an accidentally badly build deb
> > from wrecking my system.
> Install VirtualBox, build a test machine, put your normal packages on
> there, archive the image, get the deb and install it. If the VM isn't borked
> it's clear, rearchive the updated image, install the deb on your real machine.
> If it is borked, unpack the image to get back to a clean test environment.
> That is the only practical way to test the stability of debs in the manner
> you're looking for because it is no longer you trying to theorize what might
> happen. It is now you directly observing what does happen. A far easier
> thing to do.
>
Using virtualbox is a great idea, thanks! Coming from Gentoo I have to
get used to the whole binary thingy. Thanks for helping me understand.
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Regards,
Aniruddha
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