Re: non sudo build

[Baurzhan Ismagulov <ibr@radix50.net>]

Hello Marc,

On 2025-03-14 01:23, 'mdolli...@googlemail.com' via isar-users wrote:
> I would like to build isar as non sudo user. I found a feature for this, 
> but the latest comments are 2 years old:
> - https://github.com/ilbers/isar/issues/11
> 
> Are there any new updates to that topic?

Depending on what you mean with "build Isar as non-sudo user", one answer could
be to use kas-container as normal user. But the container is privileged and
runs Isar with sudo calls.

Regarding the sudo state in Isar:

1. sbuild has been merged
2. mmdebstrap has been merged
3. Removing the sudo calls is TODO

Historically, the main issue with sudo was mounting and chrooting which was
difficult to solve in their entirety with the existing tools like fakeroot,
fakechroot, pseudo, PRoot, etc.

Steps #1 and #2 account for little number of sudo calls but are important for
greatly reducing the number of mounting occasions.

For #3, we need to classify the sudo calls and possibly provide some API either
to access files within the rootfs, or to chroot into the rootfs and do stuff --
both without sudo. This will affect downstreams but this is a necessary step.
This topic is being addressed at idle priority.

With kind regards,
Baurzhan

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