Hi, On Mon, 09 Dec 2013 21:41:23 +0000 MegaBrutal <megabrutal@gmail.com> wrote: > I thought to build a Debian chroot in an LXC container, but it fails. From > the debootstrap.log it turns out, debootstrap tries to create devices with > MAKEDEV, but it fails with "Operation not permitted". I run debootstrap under > root within an LXC container, seems LXC doesn't support the creation of > devices. It would be nice to work around this problem, e.g. by adding a > --variant option which is compatible with LXC. Now I can choose another way > to build a custom Debian installation, still it would be useful to be able to > build chroots even within containers. this might be related to #698347 in that the changes made to debootstrap in that bug would most likely also fix this bug. So maybe instead of adding a --variant=proot option as explained in #698347 it would make sense to add switches which allow to turn off some things debootstrap does so that it works with proot as well as under lxc. Thanks! cheers, josch
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