No Spam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Fri, Dec 10, 2004: > My understanding is that the problem is that it's trying to chroot to > /opt/foo1, but there is no root filesystem there (for example, no > /bin/sh at /opt/foo1/bin/sh), so there's no way for it to do anything > other than simple copying of files. Is this really what's going on? > Is there no simple way to allow the user to relocate a small subset of > packages without relocating the whole base / install?
It's not an easy task you're into. I see multiple problems with relocation of Debian packages: - packages have dependencies which ensure that a package in a particular version gets all the libs it needs installed at the proper place, - packages expect some standard utilities in certain places (in fact they can assume any part of the base system is available for example in maintainer scripts), - packages expect to be able to reach their own files with hard-coded pathnames, for example a gnome app might expect to reach its pixmaps in /usr/share/pixmaps. I'm not aware of packages which will work flawlessly outside of a base system and without the use of the chroot, nor of a way to distinguish them. HTH, -- Lo�c Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
