Re: How to rebuild a Debian package for a foreign architecture?
On 2018-01-25, Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> wrote:
> On 2018-01-25 14:53:14 +0000, Curt wrote:
>> On 2018-01-25, <tomas@tuxteam.de> <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
>> >
>> > It seems that you are missing the '386 (or more precisely the '686)
>> > executables. Perhaps you need the package dpkg-cross.
>> >
>> >> If I need binutils-i686-linux-gnu, shouldn't dpkg-buildpackage fail
>> >> when checking the build dependencies?
>> >
>> > I'll leave that question to someone more knowledgeable.
>>
>> I'm much less so, but I've heard people recommending pbuilder for
>> this (chroot).
>>
>> pbuilder --create --architecture i386
>> pbuilder --build mypackage.dsc
>
> IMHO, this is overkill, at least in my case. And I don't like to
> require root just to build a package.
>
Apparently you need root to satisfy the build *dependencies* (which
means you need to be root to install a package--but we new that
already).
However
...most packages do not need root privilege to build, or even
refused to build when they are built as root. pbuilder can create a user
which is only used inside pbuilder and use that user id when building,
and use the fakeroot command when root privilege is required.
https://pbuilder.alioth.debian.org/#nonrootchroot
Anyhow, nothing is more convincing than success, and if your "lighter"
and less "mortal" method is successful, God bless and full speed ahead!
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