Axel.Thimm at ATrpms
Jul 25, 2009, 12:11 AM
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Re: A way to compile ubuntu packages on a Fedora 10 machine?
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Hi,
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 10:45:49AM +1000, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> Hi
>
> Actually, it's more fun than that.
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> I have access to a FreeBSD 7.2 machines (64 bits) with mighty
> processing power (dual quad xeon) ; and I thought I could use it to
> compile my ubuntu packages. Currently the way I do it is compile
> locally on a ubuntu 64 bits machines (takes over 1 hour just for
> mythtv) then upload the packages to a server in the US (takes another
> 2 hours on my 1Mbit/s upstream link).
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> So I thought of compiling on the FreeBSD machine. It has a Fedora 10
> compatibility package, so I have all the fedora 10 packages available
> if required...
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> Any way of compiling ubuntu/debian packages on a F10 machine ?
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> I thought of asking here, because people are very fedora knowledgable here.
I would either use some chroot method (probably self-brewn, I haven't
heard of a Debian-chroot-on-Fedora), distcc or xen/kvm.
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