Re: openoffice in chroot

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

On (04/05/05 17:16), Giacomo Mulas wrote:
> On Wed, 4 May 2005, Clive Menzies wrote:
> 
> >Well I'm not sure if this is proscribed practise but I installed cups in
> >the chroot ..... it works ;)
> 
> do you mean that you installed the package or that you actually run the 
> service from the chroot? Both are feasible, of course. Given that disk 
> space is relatively cheap these days, definitely cheaper than time anyway, 
> I chose to have two more or less parallel and complete installation of 
> sarge, 64 and 32 bits. The machine boots and runs all services on the 64 
> bit side, and anything in the 32 bit chroot finds all the executables and 
> libraries seamlessly. OpenOffice detects and uses without problems the 
> cups printers, even if the daemon runs on the 64 bit side. Easy to setup 
> and maintain, after an initial effort in harmonising system uids and gids 
> and, more generally, the configuration of all services.
I have cups installed both in 64bit and 32bit systems - so I assume
openoffice and firefox use the 32 bit cups system to print and
everything else uses the 64bit cups install.

Regards

Clive

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