Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cleaning up the Debian act (report from the trenches)

Ketil Malde wrote:

Neither do I have an Etch system around, but I should probably install a virtual machine or something. Ideally, I should work out the minimal requirements (including for dependencies, and for dependencies' dependencies), but in practice, I end up depending on whatever is installed on the computer I use. Lazyness bites again. :-)

If you have a Debian (or presumably Ubuntu) machine of some kind, then the package "pbuilder" makes it reasonably easy to set up build environments for particular releases. It is oriented towards building debian packages, but you can "login" to the environment. This is a lot lighter weight than a virtual machine (it uses chroot). David