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Re: How to rebuild a Debian package for a foreign architecture?

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On 2018-01-25, Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> wrote:
> On 2018-01-25 14:53:14 +0000, Curt wrote:
>> On 2018-01-25, <tomas@tuxteam.de> <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
>> >
>> > It seems that you are missing the '386 (or more precisely the '686)
>> > executables. Perhaps you need the package dpkg-cross.
>> >
>> >> If I need binutils-i686-linux-gnu, shouldn't dpkg-buildpackage fail
>> >> when checking the build dependencies?
>> >
>> > I'll leave that question to someone more knowledgeable.
>> 
>> I'm much less so, but I've heard people recommending pbuilder for
>> this (chroot).
>> 
>>  pbuilder --create --architecture i386
>>  pbuilder --build mypackage.dsc
>
> IMHO, this is overkill, at least in my case. And I don't like to
> require root just to build a package.
>

Apparently you need root to satisfy the build *dependencies* (which
means you need to be root to install a package--but we new that
already).

However 

 ...most packages do not need root privilege to build, or even
 refused to build when they are built as root. pbuilder can create a user
 which is only used inside pbuilder and use that user id when building,
 and use the fakeroot command when root privilege is required.

https://pbuilder.alioth.debian.org/#nonrootchroot

Anyhow, nothing is more convincing than success, and if your "lighter"
and less "mortal" method is successful, God bless and full speed ahead!



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is running the country.” – Kurt Vonnegut

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How to rebuild a Debian package for a foreign architecture? Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2018-01-25 15:00 +0100
  Re: How to rebuild a Debian package for a foreign architecture? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-01-25 15:40 +0100
    Re: How to rebuild a Debian package for a foreign architecture? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-01-25 16:00 +0100
      Re: How to rebuild a Debian package for a foreign architecture? Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2018-01-25 23:10 +0100
        Re: How to rebuild a Debian package for a foreign architecture? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-01-26 11:00 +0100
          Re: How to rebuild a Debian package for a foreign architecture? Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2018-01-29 13:00 +0100
    Re: How to rebuild a Debian package for a foreign architecture? Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2018-01-25 23:10 +0100
      [SOLVED] How to rebuild a Debian package for a foreign architecture? Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2018-05-15 13:40 +0200

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