Re: Introducing the hardening-wrapper package (was: Exim4 problems)

[Svante Signell]

On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 09:35 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Svante Signell, le Tue 31 May 2011 09:21:56 +0200, a écrit :
> > > Did you try to build in a chroot?
> > 
> > No, how to do that? Is it sufficient to install sbuild (and wanna-build,
> > buildd)
> 
> You don't need sbuild. You just need another partition, run debootstrap
> in it, and chroot into it. You'll need to firmlink servers/socket/{1,2}
> from the root to get named pipes and network sockets working.

Do I really need a separate partition? According to the debootstrap
manpage it does not seem to be required.

Anyway, if using a separate partition, how large should that partition
be, is 10GB enough? There is also a package called pbuilder automating
all this. Usable?