Hello, 2011/7/8 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <[email protected]>: > On Vie 08 Jul 2011 15:27:17 Neil Williams escribió: > [snip] >> > By going step by step through the things that polystrap does, let me >> > list what would have to change in multistrap to make it build foreign >> >> > rootfs without superuser priviliges: >> Multistrap already does all of this, the only thing for which some >> people might want emulation is configuration. That's device-specific. >> There's no reason to fold that into multistrap. > > Then why is multistrap installed under /usr/sbin?
That's good question, but if you do not run multistrap as root, then the system is unusable (partially because effective UID does not match real UID). > I think the main point here is installing without root privileges. We may > disagree on the configuration part, and I understand that, but being able to > run multistrap without root privileges is a nice and secure feature. http://wiki.debian.org/EmDebian/CrossDebootstrap#Generating_cross_images_as_non-root_user There are two different ways already, with schroot or with fakechroot Cheers, -- Héctor Orón -.. . -... .. .- -. -.. . ...- . .-.. --- .--. . .-. <free spam> -- Would you like to make a donation for Debian Conference? ** http://debconf11.debconf.org/payments.xhtml ** </free spam> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caodfwefjmvetf-bzdakhpk4bzy+ndn-cdipgcbqkvi-swjw...@mail.gmail.com
