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[Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 04:44:55PM -0400, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> Quoting Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>:
> 
> >
> >In order to do what you want (build inside a chroot) you have to have an
> >entire functioning system, including all the dependencies of the spell
> >you're building, inside the chroot. You cant simply build something that
> >links against libraries without that stuff installed. You cant build
> >subversion if apr isnt installed. So the chroot for installing would
> >have to be pre-generated. Is this an idea worth considering? Definitly.
> >Will it eliminate INSTALL/TRACK_ROOT variables? I disagree, it just
> >changes (some of) the implementation. Will it make for less work for
> >spell maintainers? Depends. (more on this after some background on how
> >things work now)
> 
> Actually, this is not what I suggest. What if building is done in the 
> regular
> system (with root in TRACK_ROOT), and only doing install in the chroot 
> (using
> INSTALL_ROOT as root). Karsten made a good point, in order for "make 
> install"
> to succeed, we need at least make, bash, and install working in chroot.
> 

Okay, so you still need basesystem, plus whatever other dependencies are
required for installing located in the chroot (not just make and bash
for it to work in general)...

*shrug*

-Andrew

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