Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo chroot with old glibc

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 5:19 PM Hervé Guillemet <hg@apteryx.fr> wrote:
>
> Or do you have any suggestion for alternatives to this gentoo chroot ?
> (I'd prefer avoid installing some CentOS or Ubuntu as virtual guests).

You're of course free to do it any way you wish, but if I wanted to
create packages for various distros, I'd probably just follow their
instructions for doing so.

If you're making Ubuntu 16.04 packages I suspect it would be just a
lot less fuss all around to do it from an Ubuntu 16.04 container, and
so on.

And if you're just building binaries and creating tarballs with them,
well, why?  If people want to manually deal with stuff the source is
already fine.  If they want the benefits of a package manager they're
going to want packages.  And if you're hoping to encourage distros to
do the packaging for you, they're probably only going to do that from
source anyway.

I imagine most distros have a fairly straightforward packaging system,
and I suspect a lot of CI systems have plugins to churn out packages
for them automatically.  So why maintain some Gentoo chroot and
carefully curate every single library on them to match some entirely
different distro?  You're going to run into stuff where Gentoo doesn't
have the version you need in the repo, and you'll be fighting auto
updates, and so on.

But, sure, you can get Gentoo to install whatever you want as long as
you don't mind manually picking packages, or maintaining your own repo
where you carefully curate this stuff.

-- 
Rich