On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 19:18, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > Seriously? A chroot takes ~600MB. At build time, even for the most dep > heavy application, I doubt you will go much beyond 1GB plus space for the > build files. Say 1.5GB for most packages. That's true, but I frequently don't have that much space. I'll see if I can play with my partition scheme and take some space from another though.
> How do you build packages against [(community-)testing] or not > [testing] as required? Or do you not help in the rebuilds for library > soname bumps? I don't believe any of my packages have needed any rebuilds needed since community-testing was enabled. I'll probably use the arch-games machine to be honest if I need to in the future. > I am very much of the opinion that if you can not build a package in a clean > chroot, then you should not build the package at all. Fixing a bug quickly > is no excuse for making the bug in the first place. To my memory, I haven't had any bugs related to extra deps being pulled in because of not building in a chroot. I was talking about the bugs in a more general sense.
