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Re: Backports of newer Compilers (Clang/LLVM and GCC)



On Mon, 18 Apr 2022, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

> It is possible to use chroots without having root.  You need to have
> various privileged scripts that are setuid root, such as schroot, and
> dd-schroot-cmd, but that doesn't mean that the users themselves have
> to have root.

This completely prevents installation of extra packages that are
not available from the standard repositories, though (with good
reason, as these effectively have root (inside the chroot ofc))…

I have found this limiting (on the porterboxen), to an amount
it made several tasks impossible to achieve (wrt. architecture
testing).

bye,
//mirabilos
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