Hi,
Thanks for replying. See responses below.
On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, Osamu Aoki wrote:
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 10:17:00PM -0500, Faheem Mitha wrote:
Package: debian-reference
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Thanks. But let me think a bit before applying this...
See below for my comment.
I'd suggest adding some material to the dchroot section, including notes
about about bind mounts, dchroot, and prompt configuration. I've found all
this information extremely useful.
bind mount has come to good idea for newer kernels.
Is it not supported for older kernels? When did this start being
supported?
dchroot is good idea but going too deep on explainiing paricular
application is not for debian-reference unless that is essential thing.
Ok, well, at least mention it.
I notice that there seems to be a desire to keep the Debian reference
small and compact. I personally think it would be more useful if it was
more discursive, like a textbook.
Is the reason that you don't want it to balloon into an uncontrollable
size?
Question is having manual steps are more educational or pointing people
to dchroot and asking peolpe to read its script to get in-depth process.
They can do both. The advantage of having details is that people don't
have to spend time looking to multuple places and the information is
readily accessible from a central source. Isn't that what a reference is
supposed to be?
prompt is really preference thing. pbuilder or some package (or recent
default) surprized me by having similar fancy staff by default.
Ok, but worth mentioning, since it is quite useful to know when one is in
the chroot.
8.6.35.2. Setting up login for `chroot'
---------------------------------------
@@ -7017,6 +7083,8 @@
main # echo "8:23:respawn:/usr/sbin/chroot </sid-root> "\
"/sbin/getty 38400 tty8" >> /etc/inittab
main # init q # reload init
+
+# The purpose of this section is not clear to me.
8.6.35.3. Setting up X for `chroot'
-----------------------------------
This is to make terminal8 running sid while other 1-6 (console) are
stable.
I have not done this recently. I only use sid for building package
mostly.
Maybe, I need to test all these on sarge.
Oh, sorry. This was rather clueless of me, since I now recall that I have
in fact used this feature in the past. However, I'd recommend mentioning
that the purpose of this is so that one can log directly into the chroot
from the console by doing Ctrl-Alt-F8.
This (8.6.35.2) does indeed work on sarge.
Faheem.
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