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Hi Chan, |
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(Cc Gentoo alt mailing list) |
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Chan Kar Heng <chankarheng@×××××.com> writes: |
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> I read about Gentoo Prefix & am interested to try it out on a non |
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> rooted device. Would it be possible for the tarballs to use |
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> /data/gentoo.prefix as path prefix instead? Or configurable? |
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The tarballs distributed from |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Android/tarball are not designed |
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for non-root device. |
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There was work by xdej to let Gentoo Prefix work on non-root phone. |
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> Prebuilt tarballs need the path /data/gentoo, which can't be created |
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> without root user. I can however try to build a basic hello world apk |
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> with package name gentoo.prefix so that it creates /data/gentoo.prefix |
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> during install. I can also then make the app chmod 777 |
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> /data/gentoo.prefix so that I can read write to that folde using |
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> anything else. |
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This is an interesting idea! You are encouraged to try it out. Please |
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spread the app in the mailing list so that we could test it. |
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Cheers, |
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Benda |