Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I think maintainers should really build and test their packages in >> clean sid chroots. It's not important Whether these are set up with >> debootstrap or any other method, and whether the handling is done >> with pbuilder, manually or with other tools. But it should be done, >> and since these are the only tools for the purpose I know of, and >> people don't like to do all by hand, I think they are in fact very >> important. > > There is also sbuild (which may be used with or without schroot to > manage the chroot). I prefer it to pbuilder, but I may be a little > biased ;-)
Isn't sbuild usually using a permanently unpacked chroot which persists between different invocations of the tool? That's not what I'd call a "clean chroot", although a skilled and concentrated person might do well with it. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)