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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
To: isar-users@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: PRoot Isar summary
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 19:59:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e91c31a6-bb28-2d3b-aafe-d91671636ad0@siemens.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1496e693-490f-16d6-0957-c9281ed7dd3e@ilbers.de>

On 2017-11-09 10:57, Alexander Smirnov wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I've tried to completely switch Isar to PRoot, so here are the problems
> I've faced with:
> 
> 1. PRoot doesn't work with UID/GID, all the files in PRoot are owned by
> root. The command 'chown' doesn't have any effect.
> 
> 2. Some system commands are failed in PRoot: passwd, chpasswd. I see
> message: System error, no other clues (but for Wheezy these commands work).
> 
> 3. mkfs.ext4 doesn't work under proot, lots of files are dropped in
> resulting image.
> 
> So, summary:
> ============
> 
> 1. PRoot could be an intermediate option for:
>  + Buildchroot creation.
>  + Packages building.
>  - Drawback: works slowly.

Aren't issues 1 and 2 from above affecting these use cases as well?

> 
> 2. For image generation the other tool should be considered.
> 

What is plan B now? Plan C remains falling back to VM builds, I suppose.

Jan

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-10 18:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-09  9:57 Alexander Smirnov
2017-11-10 18:59 ` Jan Kiszka [this message]
2017-11-10 19:42   ` Alexander Smirnov
2017-11-11 17:22     ` Benedikt Niedermayr
2017-11-12  8:53       ` Claudius Heine

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