Hi, Philip Hands <p...@hands.com> writes: > On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 08:29:03 +0200, Harald Dunkel <ha...@afaics.de> wrote: > Your pipe-dream of an effortless, stable, and up to date system is just > that -- pick any two.
I personally prefer stable system with unstable chroot. This gives me best of both worlds. I can use both stable and unstable version of the same package if I want. I can still report bugs to debian since the packages are unmodified. With suitable bind mounts even freedesktop.org applications work quite ok. My current recipe is 1) sudo apt-get install debootstrap schroot 2) sudo mkdir /sid 3) sudo debootstrap sid /sid http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian 4) Add the following to /etc/schroot/schroot.conf [sid] description=Debian sid (unstable) location=/sid aliases=unstable,default users=user1,user2 where user1 and user2 are users that are allowed to use the chroot (change them!). 5) Add the following to /etc/fstab /home /sid/home none bind 0 0 /dev /sid/dev none bind 0 0 /dev/pts /sid/dev/pts none bind 0 0 /dev/shm /sid/dev/shm none bind 0 0 /proc /sid/proc none bind 0 0 /sys /sid/sys none bind 0 0 /tmp /sid/tmp none bind 0 0 /var/run/dbus /sid/var/run/dbus none bind 0 0 5.1) sudo mkdir /sid/var/run/dbus 6) sudo mount -a 7) sudo cp /etc/sudoers /etc/hosts /etc/hostname /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /etc/group /sid/etc 8) Create /usr/local/bin/sid with the following lines #!/bin/sh schroot -c sid -p -q -- "$@" 8.1) sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/sid 9) Create /sid/usr/sbin/policy-rc.d to prevent daemons from starting accidentally inside the chroot with the following lines #!/bin/sh logger "sid $0 invoked with $@" exit 101 9.1) sudo chmod a+x /sid/usr/sbin/policy-rc.d 10) (just an example) sudo sid apt-get install openoffice.org 11) (just an example) sid openoffice.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/84fwno6x9w....@sauna.l.org
