Re: Installing packages to a foreign system

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com> writes:

> On 10/7/2009 12:42 AM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> I use xen or kvm. With a chroot you can never be sure some maintainer
>> doesn't do something like this.
>>
>> But if you do see something of this kind I would report it as bug.
>
> Well, you can be sure it won't happen if you don't bind mount /sys,
> /proc, and /dev into the chroot.  But I guess that answers my question
> then; if a package fails to install because there is no /sys, /proc,
> and /dev, then it is broken and should be bug reported.

Nah, you can need those.

MfG
        Goswin