[arch-dev-public] Who wants to set up my 64 bit build box?

[Travis Willard]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Travis Willard <travis at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Jason Chu <jason at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>>> I have a machine that has been put aside for building 64 bit packages.
>>>>  Now that Aaron's is dead, we could start using this one.  I have no
>>>> idea how Aaron's was set up so I don't really have an idea on how to
>>>> set this one up.
>>>>
>>>> What is needed for me to make this build machine available?
>>>
>>> I can do it. Give me sudo access and I will set it all up the same way
>>> I had mine setup.
>>>
>>> It's fairly easy, here are the steps I did:
>>>
>>> mkarchroot /var/archroot base base-devel sudo
>>
>> I think it would also be way beneficial to have a testing-enabled
>> chroot beside the 'current' chroot.  After creating the chroot (say
>> /var/archroot-testing), just edit
>> /var/archroot-testing/etc/pacman.conf and enable testing, then run
>> mkarchroot -u to update the chroot.
>>
>> Then guys like me can even build against testing packages.  Woot.
>
> Yeah, you'd just have to flip around the ~/chroot-shell/root symlink
> to point to different chroots

Or have ~/chroot-shell/ and ~/chroot-shell-testing/  and change where
$CHROOT_SHELL points, but yeah