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authordancer <dancer>2003-04-08 14:07:01 +0000
committerdancer <dancer>2003-04-08 14:07:01 +0000
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@@ -318,7 +318,11 @@
<para>
There are some people who use pbuilder to automatically back-port
a subset of packages to the stable distribution.
- Any URL?
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ I would like some information on how people are doing it,
+ I would appreciate any feedback or information on
+ how you are doing, or any examples.
</para>
</sect1>
<sect1>
@@ -345,14 +349,16 @@
<sect1>
<title>Using pbuilder for testing build with alternate compilers</title>
<para>
- Most packages are compiled with <command>gcc</command> or <command>g++</command>
+ Most packages are compiled with <command>gcc</command>
+ or <command>g++</command>
and using the default compiler version, which was gcc 2.95 for Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (i386).
- However, Debian distributes other compilers, also, and provides
- binaries such as <command>gcc-3.2</command> for gcc compiler version 3.2.
- It is therefore possible to try compiling packages against different
+ However, Debian 3.0 was distributed with other compilers, and provided
+ binaries such as <command>gcc-3.2</command> for gcc compiler
+ version 3.2.
+ It was therefore possible to try compiling packages against different
compiler versions.
- <command>pentium-builder</command> provides an infrastructure for using different
- compiler for building packages than the default gcc, by
+ <command>pentium-builder</command> provides an infrastructure for
+ using different compiler for building packages than the default gcc, by
becoming a wrapper script called gcc, that calls the real gcc.
To use <command>pentium-builder</command> in <command>pbuilder</command>, it is possible to set up the
following in the configuration:
@@ -386,6 +392,10 @@ export DEBIAN_BUILDGCCVER=3.2
past. Future prediction features may be added later when
we can successfully handle the past.
</para>
+ <para>
+ There are people who occasionally backport debootstrap to stable
+ versions, hunt for them.
+ </para>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Notes on usage of $TMPDIR</title>
@@ -662,7 +672,7 @@ read
</screen>
</sect2>
</sect1>
- <sect1>
+ <sect1 id="lvm">
<title>Using LVM</title>
<para>
LVM has snapshot function that features Copy-on-write images.
@@ -671,8 +681,12 @@ read
It may prove to be faster, but it is not implemented yet,
and so no measurement has been made, yet.
</para>
+ <para>
+ Since user-mode-linux port seems to be more interesting,
+ this is abandoned.
+ </para>
</sect1>
- <sect1>
+ <sect1 id="withouttargz">
<title>Using pbuilder without tar.gz</title>
<para>
<command><option>--no-targz</option></command>