Package: qemu-user-static Version: 1:2.3+dfsg-5 Severity: wishlist An important usecase for these binaries is to be able to "switch" architectures on-the-fly.
Now it would be very nice to have some (sh)-script with minimal dependencies that registers all available qemu-*-static binaries in binfmt. My usecase is eg. this: I've got a Power machine that runs Fedora in ittle-endian; the debian installation on it (in a separate partition) is big-endian. If there was an easy way to register all the qemu-*-static binaries that are available in the debian root "from the outside", ie. with the debian root directory mounted (but with the other userspace having the "wrong" endianness), then afterwards a simple "chroot" to debian would work. There are qemu-user binaries in Fedora, too, but these are not statically linked, and so are a headache to get working in a chroot environment. To reiterate: having a shell script that, based on its known location, looks at the available qemu-*-static binaries in the same (ch)root, and registers them via /proc. Thank you for your consideration! -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.18.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) qemu-user-static depends on no packages. Versions of packages qemu-user-static recommends: ii binfmt-support 2.1.5-1 Versions of packages qemu-user-static suggests: ii sudo 1.8.12-1 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
