Ingo J�rgensmann dixit: >Maybe we can speed things up by installed some more packages like >fakeroot and such in the chroot and don't let them installed by >sbuild.
I’m currently cheating like this. pbuilder still tries to install them, but it doesn’t take that long. I’ve pre-installed: • fakeroot (needed by pbuilder anyway) • debhelper (needed by 99% of the packages) • eatmydata (can’t be used if it’s not in the chroot as well) Also, I’ve removed debconf-i18n (still recommended) and used to have sysv-rc replaced by file-rc (no longer recommended), and dropped tasksel and tasksel-data. Finally, make sure your build chroot is minimal – debootstrapping from d-p.org puts stuff like gcc-4.2-base or gcc-4.4-base into it, as well as some bootloaders… ridding them makes the dpkg database of installed packages smaller. Another thing: unless sbuild uses aptitude, you can remove aptitude, aptitude-common, libcwidget3, libxapian22, libboost-iostreams1.49.0, libept1.4.12, libsigc++-2.0-0c2a as you like. Make sure the chroot uses --no-install-recommends. Do use eatmydata. I repeat, use it. Create an empty file CurrentlyBuilding in the top-level (“root”) dir of the chroot, and add this to var/cache/debconf/config.dat: Name: man-db/auto-update Template: man-db/auto-update Value: false Owners: man-db And finally, not a speed hack, but often required to keep the result of “lsb_release -a” correct (and it does make that faster): root@ara3:~ # cat /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow/etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_RELEASE=unstable DISTRIB_CODENAME=sid (Faster because, this way, lsb-release doesn’t need to ask apt what it thinks its current release is.) Without it, sid is currently known as wheezy, which is broken (Doko complained about it too already). bye, //mirabilos -- <hecker> cool ein Ada Lovelace Google-Doodle. aber zum 197. Geburtstag? Hätten die nicht noch 3 Jahre warten können? <mirabilos> bis dahin gibts google nicht mehr <hecker> ja, könnte man meinen. wahrscheinlich ist der angekündigte welt- untergang aus dem maya-kalender die globale abschaltung von google ☺ und darum müssen die die doodles vorher noch raushauen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
