[Pbuilder-maint] qestion on multiple cowbuilders sharing the same basepath

[Junichi Uekawa]

> I'm currently using cowbuilder for a massive package recompilation. In
> order to speed things up I'm running several instances of cowbuilder
> (pbuilder using cowbuilder) concurrently. Currently all those instances
> have their own basepath:
> 
>   /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow_1/
>   /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow_2/
>   /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow_3/
>   ...
>   /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow_n/
> 
> Which costs a lot of disk space.
> 
> My question is: is it safe to have multiple cowbuilders running on the
> same basepath? E.g. When I use pdebuild to rebuild KDE and another to
> rebuild the kernel? Do they all have their "own" clean environment even
> when running on the same basepath? Is it safe?


yes, that's meant to be safe.


regards,
	junichi
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