on Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 03:38:25PM -0500, S . Salman Ahmed (ssahmed@pathcom.com) wrote: > >>>>> "EB" == Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes: > EB> On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 08:17:23AM -0200, Christoph Simon > EB> wrote: > >> Wouldn't it be nice to give it more use even today. Maybe > >> someone can find a way to have the stable distribution in the > >> main tree and the unstable in local. There seem to be many people > >> using stable, but wishing to get also individual packets from > >> unstable, not for testing purposes. This might be a real > >> challenge for the debian packaging system! > EB> not really, it is quite common for debian developers to have > EB> either a stable or unstable system in a chroot, for example > EB> developers who have moved to woody create a potato install in > EB> /usr/local/potato. when they need to compile a package for > EB> potato (bug fix or security) they just mount > EB> /usr/local/potato/proc and chroot in. you can even have init > EB> spawn a chrooted getty so you can `login' to potato. (actually > EB> one of the newer Debian systems allows developers to ssh in to > EB> either a potato or a woody system running on the same box. > EB> (sharing only the same running kernel)) > EB> > EB> all you really have to do is untar base2_2.tgz, chroot in and > EB> start out just like a fresh installed debian system. apt-get and > EB> all work just fine. > > Is there a HOWTO (or sth similar to one) explaining how to setup sth > like this ? I am not at all familiar with chroot (or chroot jails), but > the idea of having stable and unstable on the same machine is very > interesting. Read the chroot man pages and start playing with it. A "chroot jail" is just another way of referring to what happens when you execute chroot. The process(es) spawned from this point are restricted to a subset of the filesystem, aka, in a "jail". If this jail contains a full operating environment, there's not too much difference between this and an independetly booted GNU/Linux system, at least from userland. There are some administrative differences, however -- you're still running a single kernel, and a single set of administrative applications. > Any sources of information on how I could go about setting this up > starting from either an existing potato or woody system ? Get yourself an installation tree and start playing with it. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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