Bug#731802: debootstrap: Doesn't work in LXC containers
Package: debootstrap
Version: 1.0.55
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I thought to build a Debian chroot in an LXC container, but it fails. From the debootstrap.log it turns out, debootstrap tries to create devices with MAKEDEV, but it fails with "Operation not permitted". I run debootstrap under root within an LXC container, seems LXC doesn't support the creation of devices. It would be nice to work around this problem, e.g. by adding a --variant option which is compatible with LXC. Now I can choose another way to build a custom Debian installation, still it would be useful to be able to build chroots even within containers.
Regards,
MegaBrutal
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.12.0-5-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages debootstrap depends on:
ii wget 1.14-5
Versions of packages debootstrap recommends:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2012.4
ii gnupg 1.4.15-1.1
debootstrap suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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