Re: RedHat in Chroot
Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote:
> Hi
> Has anyone installed RedHat in a Debian Chroot? That would be the
> perfect solution for me since I have some commercial software that for
> some !"#$%&/ reason does not follow any sensible file hierarchy
> standard. If I could install RedHat Enterprise 2 and 4 on the same
> Debian machine I would be very happy. The intention is to run
> everything later on Debian.
> I know I have to install RedHat with its installer but has anyone tried
> using it with chroot?
>
> Thanks
> Gudjon
>
> Ps. I got a private answer to my earlier question. Please don't spend your
> time on it. I will send the solution to the list later today.
Hi Gudjon
You may want to take a look at 'mock':
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=mock&suite=all
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/Mock
I've used it for building Fedora and CentOS chroots on a Debian Etch
box. The chroots can then be used for either automated or manual RPM
package building.
I don't know if RHEL can be installed purely with yum like Fedora and
CentOS can, and AFAIK this is a requirement when using mock. But I guess
packages built for CentOS should work just as well for RHEL, due to
their origins.
After creating the chroot with mock, I use 'schroot' to set up the
environment for manual builds inside the chroot.
Perhaps these two links may be helpful as starting points:
http://www.ginou.ca/archives/273
http://www.pseudorandom.co.uk/2007/sbuild/
I can also provide some example mock and schroot configurations if
necessary.
Another solution would be to use virtualization to create a complete
RedHat (or whatever) installation running as a virtual machine under
your Debian installation. I've used KVM and qemu for this purpose
previously, but I've come to the conclusion that chroots are slightly
more efficient for my purpose.
Good luck!
Cheers, Jonas
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