On Thu, May 01, 2025 at 12:28:10PM +0000, Mathias Gibbens wrote: > On Mon, 2025-04-21 at 13:12 +0200, Bastien Roucaries wrote: > > Now we could not install on i386, we need a wiki page for how to > > debug quickly on i386 > > It's easy to setup an i386 container with Incus, which is how I've > been running 32bit builds/debugging for the past few years. Assuming > you've already got Incus configured to your liking: > > $ sudo apt install distrobuilder squashfs-tools-ng > > $ sudo distrobuilder build-incus /usr/share/distrobuilder-images/debian.yaml > ./trixie.i386/ -o image.release=trixie -o image.architecture=i386 > $ incus image import --alias trixie.i386 ./trixie.i386/incus.tar.xz > ./trixie.i386/rootfs.squashfs > > $ incus launch trixie.i386
I just set up a schroot[1]. I have a handy-dandy schroot setup script which makes it super easy[2] to create an amd64, i386, and arm64 (using qemu) build chroots. This was originally created to let random graduate students or kernel newbies set up a kernel file system test appliance[3][4], but these days I very often use this for general cross-architecture debian development. [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Schroot [2] https://github.com/tytso/xfstests-bld/blob/master/setup-buildchroot [3] https://thunk.org/gce-xfstests [4] https://github.com/tytso/xfstests-bld/blob/master/Documentation/building-xfstests.md I will also use sbuild with git-buildpackage when creating hermetically built packages for uploading, but that's a lot more complicated to set up. - Ted
