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

[Clint Adams]

On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 06:23:50PM +0200, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> 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.

Hi Joakim,

I don't know anything about proot, but I tried this:

% proot -b /etc:/tmp
$ fakeroot id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),27(sudo),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),110(fuse),117(lpadmin),134(systemd-journal),1000(clint)

Does that hang for you?