[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Installing debs in ~user/ or /usr/local?



On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 02:33:45PM -0700, Alexander Hvostov wrote:

> One could use fakeroot to create a sort of virtual machine, in which regular
> users can install packages as they please, but fakeroot doesn't support
> chroot (yet?), and I'm beginning to think a better solution would be an
> operating system within an operating system, and let the user play in her
> `own' system, and while it for all intents and purposes seems to be running
> on bare metal, it really is a virtual machine. That would be quite fantastic
> for doing normally privileged operations without a security risk, though.

You should look into the S/390 port.

-- 
 - mdz



Reply to: