[Fakeroot-devel] Feature: Add proot's --bind option

Joakim Tjernlund joakim.tjernlund at transmode.se
Sat Jul 19 16:23:50 UTC 2014


proots --bind option is very handy when cross compiling. One problem when 
cross compiling is
the semihard sysroot location. Everything wants to find deps and install 
there.
Makes it hard to have multiple branches going at the same same time as 
well as it requires
root privs.

Using proot one can remap sysroot, proot -b $new-sysroot:$sysroot
now ever access to $sysroot will end up in $newsysroot which may be a user 
own/SCM controlled
directory.

So having the same possibility in fakeroot would be awesome.
I have tried to combine proot -b with fakeroot but it does work well.
Gentoo's emerge command hangs at install.
proot seems fairly slow as well.

 Jocke



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