Running gdebi inside or outside of chroot

Junichi Uekawa dancer at netfort.gr.jp
Sun Dec 13 07:15:46 UTC 2009


Hi,

>  I'm aware that the aptitude build-dep resolver installs aptitude, but
>  it's much less intrusive as aptitude is Priority important and mostly
>  adds a couple of uncommon libs into the mix.
> 
>  I think we could require gdebi's installation on the host to use this
>  build-dep resolver, and bail out with a helpful error message if it's
>  not installed on the host.  That would be less intrusive for "clean"
>  builds.  With aptitude we don't really have the option to avoid its
>  installation, but we could remove it after installation; not a big deal
>  IMO.

Sounds good as long as it's not a Depends: on host.



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