Bug#1010523: ITP: xchroot -- extended chroot with X11/Xorg and audio support, chroot as user
Package: wnpp
Version: 2.7.4; issued 2022-04-28
Subject: ITP: xchroot -- extended chroot with X11/Xorg and audio
support, chroot as user
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : xchroot
Version : 2.7.4
Upstream Author : Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@elstel.org>
* URL : http://www.elstel.org/xchroot/
* License : GPL-3
note: An openSUSE package exists since quite some time. Nonetheless I
believe xchroot would be ideal for a distribution like Debian.
Xchroot is a well-tried and known program to run X programs in a chroot.
It features audio support (important for video, audioplayers, etc.) and
various provisions for IPC like mounting /dev/shm, creating a
dbus-session and all of what an exigent GUI program needs. It has an own
provision to chroot as user and to create desktop links that will
directly invoke xchroot with the respective root that the desired
program lives in. This is especially useful for running programs like
the Otter browser not being packaged for Debian yet or for running
Wine32 programs from and amd64 root. Xchroot can also start a whole
desktop session in a chroot container. Unlike systemd-nspawn it does not
need to boot a whole system and can also be executed on a chroot
established with debootstrap or a minimal chroot only containing the
busybox package.
I believe xchroot is a must have for an amazing and comprehensive distro
like Debian!
P.S.: It could also be good choice to support this program under the
rescue console. Xchroot to your installation and run grub-install, ready!
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