[ sent again, without 8bit headers to please Debian MTAs ] Hi Christoph, Quoting Christoph Müllner (2020-02-09 12:54:56) > I'd like to run the second stage of debootstrap without root rights, > but for another architecture (host is x86_64 and target is arm64). > > I know how to do all that with root rights (i.e qemu-aarch64-static > works perfectly here, also, I can recommend using qemu-debootstrap), > but I can't figure out a way how to do that without root rights. > > I was expecting that fakechroot and fakeroot will do the necessary > "magic" to make chroot work for my use-case, but that's not the case > (I need to have libfakeroot.so and libfakechroot.so in the target > rootfs, but I could not find a reliable way to get them in). > > I found some emails in the archives about similar use cases (from ~10 > years ago). But I failed to identify the solution in those cases. > > Therefore I'd like to ask if anyone has a solution for my use case or > some hints/pointers. Have a look at mmdebstrap! The author of that tool - Johannes Schauer - has long fought for ways to eliminate the need for being root to bootstrap Debian, and mmdebstrap is as I understand it the state of the art of that! - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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