Re: foreign rootfs without root priviliges with multistrap, fakeroot, fakechroot and qemu user emulation

[Marcus Osdoba <marcus.osdoba@googlemail.com>]

Am 23.06.2011 10:53, schrieb Johannes Schauer:
> I sincerely hope that my opinion (that I prefer simplicity over many
> features) is not based on some stupid NIH syndrome of mine (i'm with you
> in not liking to invent things twice) but what you do is really so much
> more than what I consider sane (compiling your own kernel, setting up
> qemu for testing, creating local debian repository, ...). Is there a
> point of discussing why you see that such a script should do those
> things? You probably have your reasons, no? But maybe it's also me who's
> weird because there for example exists a script called "install.sh" for
> debian on the openmoko gta01/freerunner which I dont like for similar
> reasons because this script also incorporates mechanisms to partition
> and format my SD card or configures uboot - and you could also get me
> started for ubuntu's rootstock script.
I guess you would have find the same pitfalls like I did, if you 
continued to build for other targets and serve more features with your 
skript. I found (some of) them already...

> Hopefully nobody felt offended - how would other people on this list
> tackle the problem?
No offense taken. I accept your design goal to keep things simple. 
Anyway, another user and voluntary tester would have been nice...

Am 18.06.2011 00:18, schrieb Hector Oron:
> This scripts look quite helpful. I wonder if it would be worth it to
> unify them and make them
> more generic to be a .deb package in itself.
@Hector - my Makefile set serves a similar goal and is already (more or 
less ;-) ) generic. Do you think it might be helpful for someone else, too?