Bug#1018957: mmdebstrap fails in proot mode

2022-09-15 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Christoph Groth (2022-09-15 16:31:18) > Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > > > Yes. This is because if you just run "mmdebstrap --unshare-helper > > /usr/sbin/chroot" then it will do nothing else then do a chroot into > > the given directory. Since you cannot create any device

Bug#1018957: mmdebstrap fails in proot mode

2022-09-15 Thread Christoph Groth
Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > Yes. This is because if you just run "mmdebstrap --unshare-helper > /usr/sbin/chroot" then it will do nothing else then do a chroot into > the given directory. Since you cannot create any device nodes as the > unshared user, /dev/null is missing. You can

Bug#1018957: mmdebstrap fails in proot mode

2022-09-08 Thread Christoph Groth
Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > $ mmdebstrap --include=hello testing - | tar -C /tmp/fakechroot -x This is perfect for my purposes, thanks! signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1018957: mmdebstrap fails in proot mode

2022-09-08 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi Christoph, Quoting Christoph Groth (2022-09-08 10:13:04) > Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > > > Thank you, your input was very valuable because proot was essentially > > broken since 16 August 2021 and I was waiting for somebody to tell me > > that they are a proot user and why they

Bug#1018957: mmdebstrap fails in proot mode

2022-09-08 Thread Christoph Groth
Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > Thank you, your input was very valuable because proot was essentially > broken since 16 August 2021 and I was waiting for somebody to tell me > that they are a proot user and why they need it. You are a proot user > but it seems that creating the chroot

Bug#1018957: mmdebstrap fails in proot mode

2022-09-04 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi Christoph, I'm putting the bug back in the CC and snipped your personal note. Quoting Christoph Groth (2022-09-03 23:06:19) > Many thanks for your very detailed answer! I learned a lot (and I still > have to digest it a bit more). > > I’m usually not debugging FTBFS but rather stuff

Bug#1018957: mmdebstrap fails in proot mode

2022-09-02 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, there is a lot to unpack here... Quoting Christoph Groth (2022-09-02 18:24:08) > > Quoting Christoph Groth (2022-09-02 15:58:45) > > > Running mmdebstrap in proot mode seems no longer to work, > > > > yeah, I'm aware. I'm tempted to "solve" the problem by removing proot > > mode. > > > > I

Bug#1018957: mmdebstrap fails in proot mode

2022-09-02 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Christoph Groth (2022-09-02 15:58:45) > Running mmdebstrap in proot mode seems no longer to work, yeah, I'm aware. I'm tempted to "solve" the problem by removing proot mode. I am curious: why do you want to use proot mode over the other modes? What advantage does it give you for

Bug#1018957: mmdebstrap fails in proot mode

2022-09-02 Thread Christoph Groth
Package: mmdebstrap Version: 0.7.5-2.2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Running mmdebstrap in proot mode seems no longer to work, For example the command mmdebstrap --mode=proot unstable ./unstable-chroot fails with the following output: I: chroot architecture amd64 is equal to the host's