Hi Rene, On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 12:08 AM, René J.V. <rjvber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday January 19 2015 14:30:28 Thiago Macieira wrote: > > I don't have to. This is standard practice already. All the major Linux > > distros build their packages like I described. Look at Fedora's Koji or > the > > Open Build System or what Debian uses. Take a look at Scratchbox too. > > I can only speak for Debian and Ubuntu and for those that is true for the > packages that they ship, and for PPAs people can create. > But do you really think that Debian or Ubuntu maintainers develop their > packages starting with a clean install every time (creating a new VM each > time as launchpad does)? > Yes, or rather, they have a 'base system' chroot somewhere and when they build a package the helper utilities will install the necessariy build-deps, build the package and remove the build-deps again. No need for a new vm everytime or a vm at all. A chroot is totally sufficient and quite cheap too (it merely needs a little extra space on disk). > Every Ubuntu package that I've tried to build locally builds just fine. > And I don't have the impression that dpkg-build sets up some sort of chroot. > I can't recall what I've been using 'back then' when I looked at how debian packages can be created (for unpackaged software) but I did use a chroot as well and not build the package in my normal system. Andreas
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