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. -- Boilerplate programming mean tools lack power. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]