Debian Bug report logs - #204652
debootstrap: fakechroot support

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Package: debootstrap; Maintainer for debootstrap is Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>; Source for debootstrap is src:debootstrap (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Piotr Roszatycki <Piotr_Roszatycki@netia.net.pl>

Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 01:33:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: fixed, patch

Found in version 0.2.2-0.1

Fixed in version debootstrap/0.3.3

Done: Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Anthony Towns wrote:
> I realise the patch doesn't support this.
>
> But my intuition for it would be to have "--fakechroot" allow you to
> run debootstrap as an ordinary user. Sure, you have to run "fakechroot"
> to get into it, rather than real chroot, but that's no big deal.
>
> ie, the syntax would be something like:
>
> 	debootstrap --fakechroot ...
> 		# fakechroots into $TARGET, creates chroot, saves settings as
> 		# $TARGET/.debootstrap-fakechroot
>
> That probably requires debootstrap re-exec'ing itself, but that's no
> big deal.
>
> > There is possibility to detect fakechroot environment and enable this
> > switch automatically.
>
> Yes, that's probably a good idea too.

Hmm, which option would be better?

> Also, why is fakechroot being added to the list of debs to install
> for sid?

There must be a libfakechroot.so library in chroot as far as it is
preloaded by linker.

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