On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 14:09:59 +0000, Tim Cutts
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> Yes, indeed, because --root does a chroot() which requires root
> privilege. What I'm basically after is a dpkg-alike that uses a
> different root directory, but without using a chroot, so that non-
> root users can use it.
I do this using UML and a copy-on-write fs to play around
with. One can have bunches of cow_fs files lying around, for the
same root_fs. There was even a script somewhere which set up a
structure for per user swap and cow file systems.
manoj
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