On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 02:42:51PM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Friday 05 January 2007 12:46, Axel Thimm wrote: > > The question is whether that is technically possible - for what I use > > at ATrpms, an ancient bunch of shell scripts being the equivalent of > > mock, I use fakechroot/fakeroot to maintain chroots as a simple > > user. I think that will work with eliminating the need for the chroot > > part in the mock helper as well. If we check the remaining parts in > > mock requiring root priviledges (perhaps just for mounting?) perhaps > > we can eliminate these, too, and end up with a pure non-root working > > mock. > > Would one still be able to do things IN the chroot like create loopback > images > and write to them? I need mock to be able to compose trees, which requires > these types of things.
I don't know, I haven't had the need to do so in chroots, but I would think that not, since fakeroot/fakechroot only emulates some library calls accociated with file access/manipulation and chrooting, and mounting requires kernel cooperation (even for fuse). So, if the kernel does not allow user mounts, and that's the only way to write/manipulate images then most likely no. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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