One of my favorite features of #Guix is "guix shell PACKAGE" to install a package in a throwaway environment, without worrying about building up cruft with installed packages.
I recently used this ugly hack on #Debian from a packaging directory with minimal dependencies:
sbuild -d UNRELEASED -c sid --add-depends=presenterm --starting-build-commands='%SBUILD_SHELL'
I already have sbuild installed; this costs me nothing!
I can experiment with packages from Unstable on my Stable system!
@vagrantc How does it differ from a throw-away container environment? podman run -it —rm debian:unstable
Main difference that leaps out at me is I do not have podman installed and am not versed in the use of podman, so not in a position to say much. :)
@vagrantc If you have sbuild installed, you probably also have mmdebstrap installed. If so, you can try this: mmdebstrap --include=${yourpkg} --chrooted-customize-hook=bash unstable /dev/null
Although you seem to have leaked the secrets about --chrooted-customize-hook ... they are not documented in the mmdebstrap man page! *gasp*
@josch That is nice!
I just have to remember to pass:
--aptopt='acquire:http:proxy ...'
To use my apt-cacher-ng setup to speed up the package downloads...
And then it seems about as fast as the tarball approach, given that you still have to download and install the extra dependencies anyways...
