setting up a backports environment

[matthew nicholson]

excelent, exactly what i needed to here.

On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 09:55 -0500, John Dong wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/30/05, matthew nicholson <sjoeboo at sjoeboo.com> wrote:
>         hmm, okay. one question regarding pbuilder/ubp-build.py. if
>         your using
>         ubp-build.py inside the pbuilder chroot..how do you fetch the
>         dapper
>         source packages? do you just do it by hand, or can you change
>         where teh
>         sources are fetch from, so its all automatic?
> 
> You don't use ubp-build.py inside pbuilder... ubp-build.py
> accomplishes tasks similar to pbuilder, with you in command instead of
> pbuilder inside the chroot. 
> 
> Either way, configuration of sources is done by adding deb-src lines
> for Dapper, whether it's /etc/apt/sources.list inside the chroot or
> the pbuilder config file.
> 
> 
>         thanks for the help getting set up guys.
>         
>         matt nicholson
>         sjoeboo at sjoeboo.com
>         sjoeboo.com
>         
>         
>         On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 09:19 -0500, John Dong wrote: 
>         > meh, either way is fine... I've just never really caught on
>         to
>         > pbuilder... At times I appreciate the speed of the
>         unpack-and-hack
>         > approach to figuring out what it takes for a package to
>         start
>         > compiling... 
>         >
>         > I've been playing with Device Mapper's Copy-on-Write
>         functionality for
>         > making all changes to the chroot temporary.
>         >
>         > On 11/30/05, Marc Wiriadisastra <strikeforce at iinet.net.au>
>         wrote:
>         >         > On 11/30/05, John Dong <jdong at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>         >         >> google ubp-build.py....
>         >         >> 
>         >         >> I run ubp-build.py inside a chroot, which is
>         cleaned fairly
>         >         frequently.
>         >         >> As
>         >         >> long as you don't do stupid things to the chroot,
>         it'll 
>         >         stay fairly
>         >         >> clean...
>         >         >
>         >         > How about using PBuilder? it guarantees a clean
>         chroot, and
>         >         is really
>         >         > handy to use. See
>         http://wiki.ubuntu.com/PbuilderHowto for
>         >         > instructions
>         >         >
>         >         +1 from me since I've never had any issues with
>         pbuilder and 
>         >         it's create
>         >         for testing out dependancy's.
>         >
>         >
>         >
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