Bug#906265: RFH: julia -- ppc64el port of Julia language and LLVM-6.0
On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 01:45:14PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Mo Zhou writes ("Bug#906265: RFH: julia -- ppc64el port of Julia language and LLVM-6.0"):
> > I tried to think of applying for the access to debian's ppc64el porterbox
> > but it appears to be impossible for a normal user to install the resulting
> > package and build another package. Although maybe I can do some hacks on
> > PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH but that's dirty.
>
> This looks quite annoying. The basic pattern here is that the porter
> may need to install modified build-deps. This seems like it must come
> up all the time. DSA, do you have any suggestions ?
Yes, sadly. However if DSA grant us the permission to install a
customized package, we can package e.g. a setuid program to obtain
the root shell within chroot.
BTW the schroot usage page (https://dsa.debian.org/doc/schroot/)
should really mention the tricks about env vars. I've submitted bug here
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=906313
> I was going to suggest that if the llvm-toolchain maintainers agree,
> perhaps the package with the proposed patch could be uploaded to
> experimental. But in my ad-hoc tests I couldn't get dd-schroot-cmd to
> even install the package from experimental.
Frédéric has just verified the proposed patch and it's working as
expected. Thank you again @Frédéric Bonnard !
> Ian.
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