cowbuilder | pbuilder running on cowdancer | Mehr ...
'cowbuilder' command is a wrapper for pbuilder which allows using pbuilder-like interface over cowdancer environment. . pbuilder is a tool for building and testing Debian package inside a clean chroot, and cowbuilder allows chroot to be recreated using hard-linked copies with copy-on-write, which makes creation and destruction of chroots fast.
cowdancer | Copy-on-write directory tree utility. | Mehr ...
Tries to make copy-on-write semantics upon hard-link copied directory trees generated with 'cp -la' . 'cow-shell' command invokes a shell session. Within that session, under the directory cow-shell was invoked, cowdancer will create a new file when existing i-nodes are opened for write. Useful for quick scratch workspace and experimentation. . For a useful Debian tool, try cowbuilder.
qemubuilder | pbuilder using QEMU as backend | Mehr ...
pbuilder implementation for QEMU. . qemubuilder create -- builds QEMU cow base image. . qemubuilder update -- updates QEMU cow base image. . qemubuilder build -- builds package inside QEMU cow base image. . Gives a pbuilder interface for emulated cross-building environments using qemu. . pbuilder is a tool for building and testing Debian package inside a clean chroot, and qemubuilder implements similar experience over emulated CPUs. This tool allows building package inside emulated Debian environment for different CPU architectures supported by qemu.
