ma, 2006-03-13 kello 07:58 -0600, Manoj Srivastava kirjoitti:
>         I use user mode linux machines to build my packages. It
>  already has an up to date file system in the virtual machine, which can
>  be loop mounted.  It would be nice if I did not have to maintain a
>  separate piuparts chroot system. I am unsure if there is a nice way
>  to actually fire up the virtual machine to do what piuparts does --
>  but one can make the base root filesystem for the UML read-only, and
>  have a copy-on-write overlay. Then once and use cow-utils to do the
>  checking.

I have no experience with User Mode Linux, or other virtual machiens, or
at least not yet. This means that I am not likely to come up with an
implementation for this soon, but I would happily accept one if someone
else makes one.

Perhaps it would simplify things if I add an option to piuparts that
tells it to use an existing directory tree as the chroot, instead of
insisting on creating it oneself (whether with debootstrap or by
unpacking a tarball). Comments? Something like

        piuparts --use-directory=/srv/uml-chroot-cow

piuparts would then not delete the tree afterwards, either, of course.

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