For one thing each package needs a different build environment, so the overlay f...

		JoshTriplett on June 13, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Canonical creates a custom 40-processor ARM build ... For one thing each package needs a different build environment, so the overlay filesystem wouldn't necessarily help much. For another, can you say with confidence that the build process (which typically runs some steps as root) will not affect any system state outside of the filesystem?

Why run the build steps as root? Fakeroot seems to work for Debian.