[arch-dev-public] Building in a clean chroot

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Mon Jun 29 10:55:18 UTC 2015


On 29/06/15 17:16, Johannes Löthberg wrote:
> On 29/06, Ike Devolder wrote:
>> +1 for forcing build in chroot. It should be mandatory and is not hard
>> at all to do. There are some edgecases where a chroot will break the
>> building of a package, but we should be able to add 'exceptions' for
>> specific packages (with a flag or config).
>>
> 
> Hmm, might be worth it to documment some semi-common issues that might
> arise from building in a chroot or container. Like that with projects
> using tup you have to either bind in /dev/fuse from the host into the
> container, or make tup generate a shell script (through an undocummented
> command..)
> 

Is there any reason that devtools should not do that?

A


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