Package: schroot
Version: 1.2.3-1
Severity: wishlist
[ Reporting this feature request / design document as requested in the
discussion started at
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/07/msg00135.html ]
In essence: we want packages that can be installed to provide ready to
use schroot instances.
Two use cases has emerged during the discussion:
1) schroot instances used by developers, e.g. integrated with pbuilder
/ cowbuilder to build packages for various Debian(/Ubuntu?)
suites. That can result in packages like
schroot-instance-{sid,squeeze,lenny,...} with Provides matching
schroot-instance-{stable,testing,unstable}. (The "instance-"
sub-string is an addition of my own, not sure it is nice though :))
2) "poor's men multi-arch", i.e., the ability to have 32 bits chroots
on true 64 bits systems to install and run 32 bits missing 64 bits
equivalents
Various design points have been already discussed:
* chroots can be debootstrap-ed at postinst
* APT settings can be inherited (in some smart way though, because
they cannot simply be copied) from the host system
* chroots' conf can be simply dropped into /etc/schroot/chroot.d/
* mechanisms to update/upgrade in a batch way all schroot-instance's
should be developed. sbuild wrapper scripts to do that can be
mimicked. For security upgrades, unattended-upgrades integration
should be investigated
* wrappers to run apps from a given chroot should be developed, most
importantly for the multi-arch scenario. Something a-la wine could
do, but it needs to be easy and most likely able to be used as a
launched in desktop environment
... did I forget something?
Cheers.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages schroot depends on:
ii libboost-filesystem1.38.0 1.38.0-7 filesystem operations (portable pa
ii libboost-program-options1.3 1.38.0-7 program options library for C++
ii libboost-regex1.38.0 1.38.0-7 regular expression library for C++
ii libboost-system1.38.0 1.38.0-7 Operating system (e.g. diagnostics
ii libc6 2.9-19 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.0-10 GCC support library
ii liblockdev1 1.0.3-1.2+b1 Run-time shared library for lockin
ii libpam0g 1.0.1-9 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libstdc++6 4.4.0-10 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libuuid1 1.41.7-1 Universally Unique ID library
ii schroot-common 1.2.3-1 common files for schroot
schroot recommends no packages.
Versions of packages schroot suggests:
ii debootstrap 1.0.13 Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii lvm2 2.02.44-3 The Linux Logical Volume Manager
ii unzip 6.0-1 De-archiver for .zip files
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