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Re: pure Debian box?



On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 07:31:16AM +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote:

> I run Ubuntu on my machines, but I'm also starting to build Debian
> packages. I'm trying to work out a way of setting up a pure Debian box
> for building Debian packages, without having a separate machine.
> 
> Any hints on how to do this? I was thinking of investigating User Mode
> Linux [1], but perhaps there's an easier/debian specific way...
> 
> [1] http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/

pbuilder is probably the most popular solution.  It has the disadvantage of
requiring root privileges (to use chroots), but is much simpler and performs
better than (e.g.) UML.

-- 
 - mdz



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