On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 08:52:15AM +0200, Sascha Böhme wrote: > Hello, > > although my question may be out of topic, I kindly ask for your help. > > I am working on the Google summer of code project to enhance the > HackageDB website, especially by a tool to automatically generate > Haddock documentation. For this to work, it is necessary to set up a > chroot jail, in which packages are unpacked, configured and Haddock > documentation is build. Some packages also need to be build, which could > include running untrustable code. > > Up to now, I considered several ideas to set up a chroot jail, but they > all do not fully satisfy my needs or I could not test them on my machine. > > Here are my proposals for setting up a chroot environment: > > 1) use a hand-written script > > 2) use makejail, jail, jailkit (or a similar tool) > > 3) use debootstrap > > 4) use dpkg to install necessary debian packages > > My distribution is gentoo, which is why I did not test 3). However, I
I definitely recall hearing debootstrap runs on Solaris. Gentoo, being still a Linux/glibc system, is thus almost certainly supported. Stefan _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
