Thanks for this Michael. I used your instructions a while ago on a debian testing and made them work. this procedure saved me the troubles related to working with sugar-jhbuild on my main system. Rafael Ortiz <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Michael Stone <<a href="mailto:michael@laptop.org">michael@laptop.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi folks, I just wanted to report a small victory: I worked out instructions at <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Chroot" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Chroot</a> which enabled me to run today's Ubuntu Jaunty sugar packages in a debootstrap chroot on my home machine. No promises that it will keep working tomorrow or that it will work on your crazy setup, but I think it's worth trying, since it /is/ fairly repeatable. Michael Who knows -- perhaps they'll work for others who are weary (or wary) of jhbuild? P.S. - If you're looking for a fun weekend project, then you might consider extending my notes by * making the instructions work on more platforms * figuring out how to cache the downloads, e.g. with approx * baked my logic into a downloadable script or makefile * etc... _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> </blockquote></div>