On 15.04.2017 10:24, aitor_czr wrote:

> If you are in i386, you can build for amd64 build a chroot jail by the
> following way:
>
> cowbuilder --create --distribution="jessie" --architecture="amd64"
>
> and using:
>
> --git-pbuilder
>
> as an argument for git-buildpackage. All the build dependencies will be
> installed automatically within the jail, and removed after the packaging
> proccess.

I'm already doing it that way, but I wonder whether there's a better
solution. For example, I'd like to get rid of the intermediate source
packages. OTOH, I'd like to use docker for a better isolation and get
rid of the need for root privileges / su.

https://github.com/metux/packaging/blob/wksp-generic/scripts/wksp

> However, i've never got it working on Devuan.

How exactly does Devuan do it *under the hood* ?


--mtx