Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (216 mails)

[Yamaban <foerster@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 02:01, Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez@...> wrote:

> El 14/03/11 11:25, Marcus Rueckert escribió:
> > On 2011-03-14 15:19:36 +0100, Juergen Weigert wrote:
> > > On Mar 14, 11 10:47:27 -0300, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
> > > > > Going through this step by step, when I do "osc build openSUSE_Factory",
> > > > > I'm asked to su to root - why?  (it seems unnecessary).
> > > >
> > > > You need CAP_SYS_CHROOT , only root has that capability by default.
> > >
> > > fakechroot(1) comes to mind. Would that help?
> >
> > no we really need root permissions
>
>
> And there is also no jail(2) implemented in linux, which may be useful
> for this task.
>
> Anyway, best advice is Adrian's . try building in KVM instead.

Just an idea: Wouldn't it make sense to publish a working build 
environment with all the tools needed as a virtual machine?

Maybe via SUSE Studio? One for each supported OSS version?

With already 'installed' and activated repos for obs/system updates?

IMHO this woud it make easy for a newbie and even a more experienced,
but seldom packaging user to use OBS with all the needed tools without
contaminating his/her working system with packages not needed for daily
operation.

Just an Idea, but it could make life as a packager easier.

... Or does such an vitual machine image already exist, and was 'just'
not anounced loudly and clearly enough ? 
(like in the wiki under Packaging and under rpm-building)

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Cheers, Yamaban out.