[arch-dev-public] Punishment needed for not building in a chroot

[Allan McRae]

Paul Mattal wrote:
> Allan McRae wrote:
>> The tools are very simple to use and are described in the wiki 
>> (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_Clean_Chroot).  
>> There is _no_ excuse not to use them.  The are minor changes needed 
>> for doing i686 builds on x86_64 and vise versa, but there are plenty 
>> of us doing that so help is available.  Ask for help if needed.
> 
> Is there some obstacle to integrating it further with makepkg? I think 
> everyone will use it when it's as easy to use as makepkg. It doesn't 
> seem like this should be unattainable.
> 
> It would be great to be able to do a make_arch_chroots and have it make 
> chroots for both architectures and then do a makepkg -c or something, to 
> tell it to make in the chroot.

It is as simple as mkarchroot to make the chroot and makechrootpkg to 
build the package (providing the path to the chroot as an arguement).

Making a chroot for the opposite architecture is slightly more 
difficult, but I can provide patches if needed.

Allan