> Hereby I volunteer for Debian packaging polystrap. checkout the debian branch in the git repository to see how far my attempts at that are and as usual feel free to add improvements.
But also note, that I talked with wookey yesterday and he said that the polystrap functionality might as well be allowed to be implemented into multistrap. He will look into it at some point in the feature. 20:40 < wookey> If it's not too gross then I think there are good reasons to merge functionality. We have far too many foo-straps already 20:41 < wookey> We should avoid making new ones unless it really is necessary [...] 20:42 < wookey> OK. well, if everyone apart from neil thinks it's a good idea then it might happen :-) 20:42 < wookey> OK, pity. I will try to take a look in next couple of weeks and maybe re-start the argument :-) If this is the case, a polystrap debian package will of course not be needed. Unfortunately I was creating the debian branch before talking to him :) So just dont spend too much effort on it. In any case - fixing fakeroot and fakechroot with multiarch support will still benefit whatever the outcome of the above. Let me also shortly note, that I checked out fakeroot-ng which was advertised to also wrap the open() call and by that also be able to fake a chroot like fakechroot. Unfortunately it doesnt fit my/our purpose as it uses ptrace (instead of LD_PRELOAD). While using ptrace has some advantages, it also has the disadvantage of requiring CAP_SYS_PTRACE which will mostly require superuser priviliges again and hence is not serving the whole "build without superuser priviliges" idea. cheers, josch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110707050949.GA616@hoothoot
