[Pkg-ltsp-devel] Bug#480664: ltsp-server: Please provide script to generate alien-arch chroot using qemu

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 03:00:29PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 02:56:14PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> I imagine it would be possible to generate alien-arch chroots (like a 
>> PowerPC chroot on an x86 host) using qemu.
>
>indeed, this should be possible. until debootstrap (or similar tools) 
>support this, i doubt if we'll see it for LTSP.

Sure, leaving the task to debootstrap is _one_ approach.

What I propose is to implement this in LTSP.  When debootstrap then some 
day implements it too, the code here can be dropped.


Looking at bug #355801 there's a concern about some --foreign option.  
LTSP has only a limited set of options, and only a limited use cases, so 
risk is much smaller for causing problems here than in debootstrap, I 
believe.


  - Jonas

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