On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 12:01 -0400, Steve C. Lamb wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 09:12:01AM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > > I'm not worried about purposeful malicious intent (otherwise I would > > just use a chroot). I want to prevent an accidentally badly build deb > > from wrecking my system.
> Install VirtualBox, build a test machine, put your normal packages on > there, archive the image, get the deb and install it. If the VM isn't borked > it's clear, rearchive the updated image, install the deb on your real machine. > If it is borked, unpack the image to get back to a clean test environment. > That is the only practical way to test the stability of debs in the manner > you're looking for because it is no longer you trying to theorize what might > happen. It is now you directly observing what does happen. A far easier > thing to do. > Using virtualbox is a great idea, thanks! Coming from Gentoo I have to get used to the whole binary thingy. Thanks for helping me understand. -- Regards, Aniruddha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
