On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Travis Willard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Jason Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I have a machine that has been put aside for building 64 bit packages. >>> Now that Aaron's is dead, we could start using this one. I have no >>> idea how Aaron's was set up so I don't really have an idea on how to >>> set this one up. >>> >>> What is needed for me to make this build machine available? >> >> I can do it. Give me sudo access and I will set it all up the same way >> I had mine setup. >> >> It's fairly easy, here are the steps I did: >> >> mkarchroot /var/archroot base base-devel sudo > > I think it would also be way beneficial to have a testing-enabled > chroot beside the 'current' chroot. After creating the chroot (say > /var/archroot-testing), just edit > /var/archroot-testing/etc/pacman.conf and enable testing, then run > mkarchroot -u to update the chroot. > > Then guys like me can even build against testing packages. Woot.
Yeah, you'd just have to flip around the ~/chroot-shell/root symlink to point to different chroots
