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== Introduction ==

This document describes the steps to setup a chroot with schroot on an lvm module, so that you can build packages on an lvm-snapshot. It tries to provide an alternative to PbuilderHowto

The following assume you want to install ''dapper''. If you need a ''hoary'' or ''breezy'' chroot, then exchange ''breezy'' with the appropriate distribtion.


== Installing required packages on dapper ==

You need a very recent version of schroot. I used version 0.2.8-1ubuntu1, which is derived from debians latest schroot.

Once it gets accepted to dapper, just install the following packages:

{{{
apt-get install schroot sbuild
}}}


== creating lvm volumes ==

in order to create an lvm volume, you first need to prepare one or more partitions (or other block devices) for use as physical volume:

{{{
pvcreate /dev/md1
}}}

Then you add these physical volumes to a new volume group:

{{{
vgcreate data00 /dev/md1
}}}

Once this is done, you can now create a new logical volume. The following commands creates a new logical volume 'dapper_chroot' with the size of 5GB in a volumegroup called 'data00':

{{{
lvcreate -n dapper_chroot -L 5g data00
}}}

you can now create a filesystem on it and mount it:

{{{
mkfs -t ext3 /dev/data00/dapper_chroot
mount /dev/data00/dapper_chroot /mnt
}}}

== bootstrapping a base system ==

Now you can bootstrap your favorite distribution on that:

{{{
debootstrap dapper /mnt http://archive.ubuntu.com
}}}

Perhaps you want your /etc/sudoers and sources.list copied into that chroot, so that you can easily become root inside:

{{{
sudo cp /etc/sudoers /mnt/etc
sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /mnt/etc/apt
}}}

Unmount this temporary mountpoint now, schroot will mount it itself:

{{{
umount /mnt
}}}

== configuring schroot ==

edit '/etc/schroot/schroot.conf' to contain this stanza:

{{{
[dapper]
type=lvm-snapshot
description=Ubuntu Dapper
priority=3
groups=sbuild,root,admin
root-groups=root,sbuild,admin
source-groups=sbuild,root,admin
source-root-groups=root,sbuild,admin
device=/dev/data00/dapper_chroot
mount-options=-o noatime
lvm-snapshot-options=--size 1G
run-setup-scripts=true
run-exec-scripts=true
}}}

== Entering the chroot ==

If you want to change the 'original' chroot, you can chroot into that with the following command:

{{{
schroot -c dapper-source
}}}

All changes you make there are persistent. So if you want to upgrade that chroot, use the following commands:

{{{
schroot -c dapper-source -u root -- apt-get update
schroot -c dapper-source -u root -- apt-get -y dist-upgrade
schroot -c dapper-source -u root -- apt-get get install build-essential ubuntu-minimal fakeroot devscripts
}}}

To enter the chroot on an lvm snapshot, use this command:

{{{
schroot -c dapper
}}}

Thanks to the session scripts, some directories, like /home, /proc, /sys and /tmp are mounted for you. You can modify/add session scripts in /etc/schroot/setup.d/*

== sbuild ==

For proper support for schroot, make sure you are in the system group 'sbuild'.

Create a file called '~/.sbuildrc' with the following contents:

{{{

# Mail address where logs are sent to (mandatory, no default!)
$mailto = "root";

# Name to use as override in .changes files for the Maintainer: field
# (mandatory, no default!).
$maintainer_name='Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de>';

# Chroot behaviour; possible values are "split" (apt and dpkg are run
# from the host system) and "schroot" (all package operations are done in
# the chroot with schroot, but the chroot must allow networking)
$chroot_mode = "schroot";

# don't remove this, Perl needs it:
1;

}}}

== building packages ==

You can build now packages with the following command on lvm snapshots:

{{{
sbuild -d dapper package_1.2.3-4.dsc
}}}


If anything goes wrong, use parameters '-v -D' to debug.

Good Luck!		 #REFRESH 0 http://help.ubuntu.com/community/SbuildLVMHowto

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