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On Friday 01 August 2014 20:32:54 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Fri, 01 Aug 2014 14:07:08 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > I run a couple of chroots on this box to build packages for other boxes |
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> > on the LAN. So far, I haven't worked out what I should |
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> > populate /etc/mtab with in each chroot. Is it enough to "grep |
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> > ext4 /etc/mtab > /mnt/chroot/etc/mtab"? That catches all the physical |
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> > partitions, but I imagine I need to add some /proc, /sys and /dev |
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> > entries as well, but is there a simple formula for doing this? |
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> Do you need anything in mtab in the chroot? |
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Only while keeping the chroot clean so that it matches the target. |
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Specifically, locale-purge, which is run in a clean-up script from time to |
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time. |
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> I've been using chroots to build packages for slower machines for years |
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Yes, I know - that's where I got the idea ;) |
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> and /etc/mtab has always been empty or non-existent, with no problems. df |
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> gets the hump when run inside the chroot, but the package building works |
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> fine. |
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Regards |
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Peter |
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