Hi, a few new things happened in the past month that make it even more easy to configure the result of a multistrap-run natively with qemu user mode emulation and without needing superuser privileges.
First of all, the fakechroot maintainer piotr roszatycki recently came back from MIA and continued working on fakechroot, closing many debian bugreports (#611156, #635625, #637119, #632954, #641079), adding many new commits/features to the fakechroot git and releasing a new version (2.15). He also made fakechroot multiarch (#632954) so that it is now easier to put a foreign libfakechroot.so shared library on the host system by installing the foreign libfakechroot package. Fakeroot is still not multiarch, so that the foreign shared library libfakeroot-sysv.so still has to be copied manually to the multiarch library path. See bug #636192 for more information on how to resolve the situation. The qemu patches enabling the setting of LD_PREFIX through environment variables made it into the qemu git (commit fc9c54124d) and hence will likely be included in the next qemu release, fixing bug #632192. So right now one still needs either - build and install latest qemu from git (at least the linux-user binary) - `apt-get source qemu` and add this quilt patch http://mister-muffin.de/p/ZxDi - have the shared libraries in the default path /etc/qemu-binfmt/arm. The last option is probably the simplest and fastest until the new qemu version is released and the content of /etc/qemu-binfmt/arm is easiest generated using this multistrap config: -%<------------------- [General] arch= directory= cleanup=true unpack=true noauth=true aptsources=Debian bootstrap=Debian allowrecommends=false addimportant=false omitrequired=true [Debian] packages=libc6 libselinux1 libacl1 man-db libstdc++6 libfreetype6 libx11-6 libfontconfig1 source=http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian suite=sid omitdebsrc=true ->%------------------- There will still be lots of unwanted stuff but because of "addimportant=false" this is as minimal as it gets in an automated fashion. So the only two things left seem to be waiting for the release of the next qemu version and to make fakeroot become multiarch. brb building a new armhf rootfs for the gta04 :) cheers, josch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111018145532.GA30805@hoothoot
