Re: bootstrap-vz switching to single branch strategy

On 3 May 2015 at 04:43, Eirik Schwenke <debian-lists@s.hypertekst.net> wrote:

On 2 May 2015 22:44:48 CEST, Anders Ingemann <anders@ingemann.de> wrote:
>Hi everybody!
>
>Just a quick update.
>
>bootstrap-vz now runs on a single master branch and the old github
>pages
>documentation has been removed (use bootstrap-vz.readthedocs.org
>instead).

(...)

Thanks for all the work on this tool!

I was wondering; are there any plans to make it more usable as a regular user? It seems it shouldn't be necessary to run it as root (at least not in all use-cases)?

Running this ss a regular user would make it more versatile for continuous build of images etc.

Perhaps there are ways to work with eg docker (or other cpio/tgz-based) images w/o needing to run as root?

Apologies if this is addressed in the documentation/roadmap.

Best regards,

Eirik Schwenke

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are any plans to make it more usable as a regular user?

I don't see how. Mounting loopback devices or any other devices for that matter, requires root privileges.

Even if one were to just bootstrap to a directory, you'd still need to be able to change things in the chroot as uid 0, which you can only do as root.

I am all ears regarding suggestions on how to circumvent that of course, but AFAIK this is not really possible.

Anders