running a program from debian/tmp

2012-02-16 Thread David Roguin
Hi, I'm making changes to the evolution email client and I want to know if there's an easy way to test the changes I am doing without installing the generated .debs. Thanks! -- David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: running a program from debian/tmp

2012-02-16 Thread Jonathan Yu
For some value of easy... I think most people who work with Debian packages on a regular basis use a chroot environment to build and install packages. Several similar programs can be used for this: pbuilder (and the faster copy-on-write variant, cowbuilder) and sbuild are the ones I've used in