Reinhard Tartler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Küster wrote: >>> There is also sbuild (which may be used with or without schroot to >>> manage the chroot). I prefer it to pbuilder, but I may be a little >>> biased ;-) >> >> Isn't sbuild usually using a permanently unpacked chroot which persists >> between different invocations of the tool? That's not what I'd call a >> "clean chroot", although a skilled and concentrated person might do well >> with it. > > This applies to the DSA version, which is used on the buildds. The > sbuild package in debian however adds more features, like schroot > support. With this, it can use schroot to create temporary, clean > chroots from tarballs, block devices, create lvm snapshots on the fly > and so on. I read Roger, that even xen support is planned.
Ah, great. Good to know - this will probably require some reading and configuring, but it sounds it's worth it. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
