Re: sbuild on hurd-amd64...

[Stéphane Glondu <glondu@debian.org>]

Hello,

Le 23/08/2025 à 10:52, Samuel Thibault a écrit :
> > > Concerning the "dpkg --install" step, some maintainer scripts fail when run
> > > under fakechroot/fakeroot.
> >
> > We should then fix that. We should be able to manage to get chrootless
> > working.

I wasn't familiar with the chrootless concept.

Indeed, I can run a "regular" mmdebstrap with --mode=chrootless, under 
fakeroot. I've updated my notes accordingly:

 
https://salsa.debian.org/glondu/hurd-notes/-/blob/master/rootless-subhurd.md

> > > It makes more sense to me to run them inside the
> > > subhurd anyway.
> >
> > I don't think the required packages should need anything that chrootless
> > can't do. Even the hurd package now doesn't, with xattrs :)
>
> Johannes, I see that base-passwd and base-files use chown to set up some
> groups etc. That would however not work with non-root chrootless, so
> we'd have to use either root chrootless, or non-root fakeroot?

My observations confirm this.

> Also, can we tell mmdebstrap to use the normal chroot instead of
> fakechroot? chroot() is not a privileged operation in the Hurd.

Oh, I wasn't aware of that!


Cheers,

--
Stéphane