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. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]