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

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:14:46AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> 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.

you are free to wish and dream, of course, but the current code is
completely relying on debootstrap, so without support in debootstrap or
some similar tool, it would require LTSP to re-implement the entire
functionality of debootstrap.

i don't think this would be a trivial amount of work, or desireable to
do; i'd rather leave initial chroot generation to other tools.

live well,
  vagrant