Rene Weber wrote: > (3) I have slink (stable) installed on my debian machines, so of course > umoria is compiled against older libraries. Is this a problem? I can > upgrade one of the machines to unstable if necessary, but that machine is a > lot slower, so I'd really rather not.
It's very easy to install a chroot potato within your slink machine. That's what I do to build packages. Start with the instructions below (probably not placing the tree under /tmp if you want to keep it) and add all the packages you need to build and test. Peter Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 17:21:35 -0800 From: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Mini tutorial: setting up a chroot to check build depends I figured this might save some people some time. If you want to set up a small debian install to see if your build dependancies work in the real world, or to find out what build deps your package needs in the first place, just type the following: mkdir /tmp/debian cd /tmp/debian tar zxf <mirror>/debian/dists/unstable/main/disks-i386/current/base2_2.tgz cp /etc/apt/sources.list etc/apt/ cp /etc/resolv.conf etc/ chroot `pwd` bin/sh apt-get update dpkg --purge lilo yes '' | apt-get -y install build-essential Then you can go archive the resulting directory tree, and use a fresh copy to test-build each of your packages in. -- see shy jo
