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i feel like this is oversimplifying, otherwise we'd be happily running tarballs in chroots. (jails anyone?)



huh, what do you chroot to apt-get/dnf ?


I think you can do that bootstrapping, for example, with debootstrap. (I'm talking by memory)


Absolutely correct. I've got a cross-compile toolchain set up right now that needs Debian (Ubuntu won't do because of different glibc versions in the cross-compile toolchains). I used debootstrap to make a basic Debian Stretch filesystem, chroot into that, and apt-get the remaining pieces and run the build. Works like a charm, no Docker required. And, unlike containers, it's intentionally persistent so future builds go very quickly.


i think you missed my point :)


That's what it seems like :o :P




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