Bug#394857: [Pbuilder-maint] Bug#394857: pbuilder-ddoc: inaccurcies in `Chapter 3. Using User-mode-linux with pbuilder'?

Junichi Uekawa dancer at netfort.gr.jp
Tue Oct 24 00:48:25 CEST 2006


Hi,

>   Quoting Chapter 3. Using User-mode-linux with pbuilder:
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Table of Contents
> 
> 1. Configuring user-mode-linux
> 2. Configuring rootstrap
> 3. Configuring pbuilder-uml
> 4. Considerations for running pbuilder-user-mode-linux
> 5. Parallel running of pbuilder-user-mode-linux
> 6. Using pbuilder-user-mode-linux as a wrapper script to start up a virtual machine
> 
> NOTE that since October 2004, pbuilder for user-mode-linux is not distributed, since user-mode-linux itself is broken in Debian. A functional user-mode-linux will hopefully be fixed before Debian etch release, but it is not quite determined yet if  will be ready for etch.
> 
> It is possible to use user-mode-linux by invoking pbuilder-user-mode-linux instead of pbuilder. pbuilder-user-mode-linux doesn't require root privileges, and it uses the copy-on-write (COW) disk access method of User-mode-linux which typically makes it much faster than the traditional pbuilder.
> 
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> 
>   t could be my non native English, but is `pbuilder for user-mode-linux' different  from
> pbuilder-user-mode-linux? In addition, doesn't testing have user-mode-linux and 
> pbuilder-user-mode-linux?  Doesn't that imply  that they are likely to be in etch?
> 


Yes, I forgot to update the documentation.


regards,
	junichi
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