On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:29:27AM -0700, Marc Singer wrote: > 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'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.
quantz is alioth, not a normal Debian porting machine, and it's not even mentioned on http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi. Use merulo instead. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]