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
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