On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 01:35:01AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > > My main reason to run stuff in a chroot environment is to ensure I get > > the right versions of libraries. > > > > You could make a tarball on Sarge, and I could unpack it on, lets for for > > something old, say RHL 3.0.3, and be reasonably confident it would run. > > Ah, sounds like we are talking about somewhat different projects then...with > a live CD setup such as Knoppix, you have complete control over all software > installed, so there are no concerns about library compatibility.
The tarball could be a subset of the live CD. 1. John C would (probably) want a CD that boots, runs Hercules and one (or more) L/390 machines. 2. MZ would probably be happy to untar a tarball (or install a deb) on his preexisting debian/testing system (or ar you running unstable?) and run that. 3. Someone running Mandrake couldn't be sure that that tarball would work because of incompatible libraries, but might prefer a chroot Debian system over the CD. The CD would be a Live CD plus the Tarball that suits M. Option 3 would be a conenience for those already running Linux, but not a compatible version of Debian as it would be a much smaller download than Knoppix. -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
