On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Benjamin Scott <dragonh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio <k...@jots.org> wrote:
>> Hmmm... might be worth looking into. I mean, what's the worst that
>> happens? I bork my system, and wind up doing a re-install. Which is what
>> I'm looking at, anyway. So, yeah -- I'll poke around and see what I can
>> make happen.
>
> I have an idea I've been turning over in my head which may be
> applicable here, too: Set up another installation in a directory
> branch. In your case, maybe under "/usr/ubuntu-i386/" or something
> like that.
>
> The reason I want to do this is so I can get certain things from
> Debian "unstable" to install (with all their library dependencies)
> without having to run my entire system on unstable.[1]
>
> One way to do this would be to bootstrap an installation in a VM or
> a chroot, but that's a bit heavy-handed.
I used to maintain a 32-bit install inside of my 64-bit install
(debian) with schroot and instructions similar to these:
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/566
https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html#id292281
I needed it to be able to use a couple of binary-only packages that
were only available as 32-bit.
> I've been fiddling with using arguments to apt-get/dpkg to change
> the root directory for that invocation, e.g.:
>
> sudo apt-get -o 'RootDir=/usr/unstable' update
>
> That problem I have is that I haven't found the magic needed to
> initialize an apt installation. It rightly complains that its data
> files are missing, but I don't know any way to create them. With RPM,
> it's "rpm --initdb". Anyone know how to do it in APT-land?
Take a look at debootstrap, it might do what you want.
-Brian
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