On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 06:20:27PM +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: > On 09/05/27 11:03 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones said ... > > Dear mentors, I'm looking for a sponsor for my package 'febootstrap'. > > > > As the name may suggest, it's a program like 'debootstrap' that > > bootstraps Fedora root filesystems. In reality, it's a smallish shell > > script around the 'yum' command (already in Debian), and uses fakeroot > > and fakechroot to do its work. It also includes some image > > minimization tools, and a program to turn root filesystems into > > initramfs images. > > Are there compelling reasons why one would want to use febootstrap as opposed > to mach? [1]. > > [1] http://packages.debian.org/sid/mach
The biggest problem with mach is it needs root, eg to run 'apt-get' or 'yum' or to run %post scripts. febootstrap does the right thing - it encapsulates any operations using fakeroot/fakechroot, so you can use it from ordinary non-root build scripts. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
