On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 09:37:51AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:20:15PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote: > > (I thought I sent this, but now I cannot find it to be sure.) > > > > I'd like to build against sid on a machine (ia64) I don't own but > > which Debian does have available. > > > > I tried the recipe from the developer's manual using fakeroot. It > > failed because it could not find a package. Perhaps, this is a bug in > > debootstrap. Is that method supposed to work? > > Use dchroot to access chroots on Debian machines. You will not be able > to install packages yourself.
Quantz doesn't appear to have this program, though the source is in joey's home. I have the impression that I'm swimming up stream on this one. Is this the right way to test a patch for a specific architecture?
