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=== Purpose ===
 
=== Purpose ===
  
You want to '''test sugar''', sugar patches, sugar packages, or sugar hacks.  
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You want to '''hack sugar'''.
  
 
You want '''clean, reproducible environments'''.  
 
You want '''clean, reproducible environments'''.  

Revision as of 15:06, 23 January 2010

Status

Purpose

You want to hack sugar.

You want clean, reproducible environments.

You want sugar-chroot.

Usage

As excerpted from the README:

sugar-chroot consists of simple scripts. Download and unpack them like so:

NV=sugar-chroot-0.1
curl http://dev.laptop.org/~mstone/releases/SOURCES/$NV.tar.xz | tar Zxf $NV.tar.xz
cd $NV

To use them, pick a supported distro:

DISTRO=debian
DISTRO=fedora

To configure:

echo $DISTRO > conf/distro
$EDITOR conf/$DISTRO.mk

Then run

sudo make r/distro

to install your chroot.

History

See http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=Development_Team/Chroot&oldid=36911 for the manual instructions which sugar-chroot automates.