David G. requested a few packages installed on silverbell today (the quad-A9 VE porter machine we host in the datacenter). We got dchroots instead:

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Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 21:02:22 +0000 Subject: [rt.admin.canonical.com #42662] Simple package installs on silverbell

On Fri Nov 26 17:08:28 2010, kiko@canonical.com wrote:

Hi there,

Could we get installed on silverbell:

build-essential debhelper fakeroot And could we get deb-src's added to sources.list and do an apt-get update to allow us to apt-get source certain packages? This is for simple compilation benchmarks. Thanks!

Dchroot environments have been created on silverbell for both maverick and natty. Within the chroot, you can sudo apt-get install to install packages. apt-get update/dist-upgrade and installs that cause package removal will require a GSA to do them.

To build for maverick: dchroot -c maverick (and then build however you want...)

lamont

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