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> > I would regret this, because I still think that Gentoo in its current |
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form |
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> > is the more "pure" approach. |
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> > My ideal would still be to implement a thing like a unionfs which allows |
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> > clean overriding of system level libraries. |
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> If you happen to find out how to do this properly, I would be more than |
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> willing to see whether it is possible to simply use an offset to install |
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> in, but not changing the paths within this offset (like a chroot jail), |
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> such that the packages in your union mount look for things in the main |
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> file system (i.e. "/"). Since your previous results have proven to be |
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> interesting, but not fully covering (eg. global union mount), in the |
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> meanwhile we keep on working on the prefix. |
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After googling a little around, the combination of chroot/jail and union |
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mounts seems to be a accepted solution to the global union mount problem. |
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It is used for most of the interesting virtualization / virtual server |
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setups. |
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What's missing is how to access such a jail from a finder started |
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application ;) |
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Regards |
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Dirk |
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