Re: Setting up a chroot on a Jessie system to compile a program using sid

[David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>]

On 12/7/18 7:36 PM, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> This is sort of a continuation of the thread started with the post
> "Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?"
>
> (https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/12/msg00144.html)
>
> Aside: the programmer has been able to send me a binary which does work on my
> Jessie system, but, never-the-less, I plan to start experimenting with either
> a chroot or VM environment to run either sid or a recent Ubuntu release so
> that I can compile / build the binary myself.
>
> The machine I want to do this on does not have any unallocated partitions /
> disk space.  There are two partitions, currently used for other purposes, that
> I could free up to use for the chroot (or, later, VM) by moving files around.
>
> The Question:
>
> One of the partitions I could free up is 16 GB, the other is 54 GB -- I'd
> rather free up and use the smaller one, but I'm wondering if that will be big
> enough?

To obtain consistent results when compiling software by multiple people 
on multiple computers with multiple operating system distributions/ 
flavors/ variants, I would suggest starting with a platform 
configuration management tool:

https://www.upguard.com/articles/the-7-configuration-management-tools-you-need-to-know


And then put your build system on top of that.


I would suggest putting your development jails, containers, VM's, 
bootable images, whatever, on a separate disk.


David