Comments on: Building Synchronet on Debian Stretch

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sat, 07 Oct 2017 13:05:23 +0000

In reply to DOS.

If I was really smart, I’d use UML or, yeah a jail thing. But I’m impatient. Usually I have a ‘compiling’ VM around with all the tools but I haven’t maintained that stuff since Debian 7, which was forever ago now…

By: DOS

DOS — Sat, 07 Oct 2017 06:30:55 +0000

Instead of installing packages from older versions of your distro, did you consider installing (some of) the older version of your distro in a chroot? I don’t use Debian much, but I’ve used schroot, and https://wiki.debian.org/Schroot recommends that you can use some tool called debootstrap to do the Debian “install”. Then e.g.:

schroot -c jessie — make -j

assuming you called your chroot “jessie” and set up schroot’s fstab to mount your current working directory in the same place in the chroot.

I find this a nice solution for running older distributions which is much more lightweight than VMs and even lighter than Linux Containers.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 04:10:06 +0000

In reply to calvin. I can never tell is Brule supposed to be retarded, drunk, high, or maybe all of the above? We're not ready....

By: calvin

calvin — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 02:38:34 +0000

to invoke Steve Brule: just chrange out the JavaScript engine, ya turkey!