> > I am a very new packager for Mandriva, and discovered that one can > > package for Mandriva even if he's not a Mandriva user because there are > > test machines on which we can log on through ssh to do the tests and > > submit the package. > > > > So my question is > > is it possible too to become a Debian packager without using Debian ? > > On your own machine, you can "install" a Debian in a directory using > debootstrap (everything is well documented in the Debian installation > manual), and then chroot inside it and use Debian tools for packaging, > testing your packages, etc. But of course, you should be familiar with > Debian tools. Debootstrap is a script with very few dependencies, you > should be able to execute it on any distro.
First I have only a small hard drive, how many space would I need for this ? Second the idea (when I saw it was possible for mandriva) is that the author of a software should be able to provide packages for all the main Linux distros (not only 1 or 2), and it would be nice if this could be made easy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
