Re: [Pysparse-developers] Python 2.5 and memory management

[Adam C P. IV <haz...@de...>]

On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 10:18 -0400, Daniel Wheeler wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Adam C Powell IV <haz...@de...> wrote:
> 
> >  > I do have one related question for you. How does one test deb packages without a
> >  > clean system or root access? There doesn't seem to be an obvious way unpack and
> >  > install locally using apt-get. Any clues?
> >
> >  A .deb package is an ar archive with a tarball of package files, a
> >  tarball of control files, and a brief version file.  You can use "ar x
> >  package.deb" which will give you these three, and then unpack the
> >  package files and try to use them.  But you don't get the
> >  system-integrating scripts etc.
> >
> >  As far as I know there's no good way to unpack and use a .deb in one's
> >  home directory.
> >
> >  Do you have sufficient access to make a chroot environment?
> 
> Yes I do. I haven't tried it though. It may be the correct way to
> create a sandbox for testing
> packaging. I'll try it out and let you know. Thanks!

Just FYI: if you want to make a chroot, debootstrap is your friend...

-Adam
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