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Re: Configure your PC to contribute to Debian community

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Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:

> Vipul writes ("Configure your PC to contribute to Debian community"):
> > Is there a way to get isolation for work & contribution purpose to
> > keep yourself organized? I can get isolation by using Docker image
> > or install one more copy of Debian in PC and switch between them but
> > that would be painful. I want to hear from contributors &
> > maintainers Which method they are using or prefer to get isolation?
>
> schroot is a utility to help you work with chroots.
> sbuild is the build tool.
>
> To make a chroot you can use sbuild-createchroot or, err, I forget
> what it's called, schroot-buildd-setup or something ?  Maybe someone
> else will pop up with the answer.

The relatively new ‘sbuild-debian-developer-setup’ package installs a
command of the same name, which I found significantly simplifies setting
up a sufficiently-isolated standard Debian package build environment.

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Ben Finney

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Configure your PC to contribute to Debian community Vipul <finn02@protonmail.com> - 2019-05-08 15:30 +0200
  Re: Configure your PC to contribute to Debian community Francisco M Neto <fmneto@fmneto.com.br> - 2019-05-08 15:40 +0200
    Re: Configure your PC to contribute to Debian community Paul Sutton <zleap@disroot.org> - 2019-05-08 16:50 +0200
  Re: Configure your PC to contribute to Debian community Gard Spreemann <gspr@nonempty.org> - 2019-05-08 16:00 +0200
    Re: Configure your PC to contribute to Debian community ghe <ghe@slsware.net> - 2019-05-08 19:10 +0200
  Re: Configure your PC to contribute to Debian community songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2019-05-08 17:00 +0200
  Re: Configure your PC to contribute to Debian community Steffen Möller <steffen_moeller@gmx.de> - 2019-05-08 17:10 +0200
  Re: Configure your PC to contribute to Debian community Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2019-05-08 18:10 +0200
    Re: Configure your PC to contribute to Debian community Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org> - 2019-05-09 03:30 +0200
  Re: Configure your PC to contribute to Debian community Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2019-05-09 02:40 +0200
  Re: Configure your PC to contribute to Debian community Ansgar Burchardt <"Ansgar Burchardt"@43-1.org> - 2019-05-09 11:00 +0200

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