Re: fakechroot

[Quirin Gylstorff <quirin.gylstorff@siemens.com>]

On 9/13/19 2:11 PM, Baurzhan Ismagulov wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 12:57:45PM +0200, Quirin Gylstorff wrote:
>> fakechroot, fakeroot and pseudo are all using a similar mechanism by
>> modifying the LD_PRELOAD_PATH with there own Libraries and abstracting the
>> necessary systemcalls. pseudo uses a sqlite Database to get a persistent
>> view on the topic.


> 
> Thanks, the persistent view was my actual question. I think we should be
> looking at pseudo, since the tools without persistency aren't going to work for
> our use case. Or do you see a possibility for fakechroot fakeroot?
>


If using fakeroot and fakechroot, debootstrap knows it is running in a 
fakeroot and adapts itself to this environment. From the previous test 
with pseudo it does not do that for pseudo[1].

I did not test of pseudo runs with --variant=fakeroot.

[1] 
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/isar-users/WV0N4X2ZZMo/4EQI3c1wBQAJ

> With kind regards,
> Baurzhan.
> 

Kind regards
Quirin