Bug#403246: [buildd-tools-devel] Bug#403246: sbuild’s shortcomings

2011-02-16 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Roger Leigh dixit: >cowbuilder has one major flaw: the copy-on-write is implemented by >LD_PRELOAD, as a shared library copied from the host system. This >precludes the build environment from having a glibc incompatible with >the host, since it would break the copy-on-write functionality. Intere

Bug#403246: [buildd-tools-devel] Bug#403246: sbuild’s shortcomings

2011-02-16 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:03:15AM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > why not “just” write something that walks like an sbuild, > quacks like an sbuild, and calls cowbuilder? > > This would solve all the problems with tearing down pak- > kage installation etc. > > … except #363193 (I think pbuilder