Re: The use of cowbuilder-dist instead of pbuilder-dist

2012-10-24 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi Oussama (2012.10.24_19:46:31_+0200) > I think everyone using pbuilder-dist now should switch to > cowbuilder-dist (unless you don't have enough free space on your disk) > please tell me what you think. Or just use sbuild, which can also use copy-on-write filesystems. sbuild + overlayfs/aufs is

The use of cowbuilder-dist instead of pbuilder-dist

2012-10-24 Thread Oussama Bounaim
Hi everybody, According to the man page of pbuilder-dist, the use of cowbuilder-dist avoid the creation of the base.tgz, which means pbuilder don't have to decompress and compress the chroot environment every time it's invoked, which will save you a lot of precious time, I think everyone using pbu