From work at infomaniak.ch  Mon May  5 14:16:39 2008
From: work at infomaniak.ch (cedric briner)
Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 16:16:39 +0200
Subject: [Vamos-devel] what can vamos do for me !
Message-ID: <481F16C7.5020305@infomaniak.ch>

Hello,

I've been writting a tool for my orgnaizations which is basically a 
launcher. Now, I've seen your project ``rootz''. I've tried to install 
it without success :(, so then it is quite more difficult to understand 
how ``rootz'' works.

So let me ask you some questions:
1) Can you from a rootz application browse the FS. (Desktop ...)
2) How rootz complies to work in other distributions than debian. I've 
seen that rootz works by binding 2 FS
  - 1st is a bootsrap of a debian
  - 2nd is a squashfs of all the stack to make the application working.

So this means that with the rootz you give to the application almost 
everything to work, except the libc ??

Ced.

-- 

Cedric BRINER
Geneva - Switzerland


From whadar at gmail.com  Mon May  5 17:03:32 2008
From: whadar at gmail.com (Hadar Weiss)
Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 20:03:32 +0300
Subject: [Vamos-devel] what can vamos do for me !
In-Reply-To: <481F16C7.5020305@infomaniak.ch>
References: <481F16C7.5020305@infomaniak.ch>
Message-ID: <d872d960805051003s2319233wac718249c98d2b45@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 5:16 PM, cedric briner <work at infomaniak.ch> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've been writting a tool for my orgnaizations which is basically a
> launcher.


Great, share if you can ;)

Now, I've seen your project ``rootz''. I've tried to install
> it without success :(, so then it is quite more difficult to understand
> how ``rootz'' works.


Provide some information and we might help you to install it properly.


>
> So let me ask you some questions:
> 1) Can you from a rootz application browse the FS. (Desktop ...)


Yes, because the /home dir is bind mounted

>
> 2) How rootz complies to work in other distributions than debian.


It can be integrated quite easily. As hosts, debian variants are supported,
puppy is known to work, and I guess other distros should work also with
minor modifications. rootz can connect the host system to many live distros
such as fedora, sabayon, mint and more.

I've seen that rootz works by binding 2 FS
>  - 1st is a bootsrap of a debian
>  - 2nd is a squashfs of all the stack to make the application working.
>
> So this means that with the rootz you give to the application almost
> everything to work, except the libc ??


I think you misunderstood the way rootz works. *Everything*, including the
application itself is provided by rootz. In praticualr, the libc that is
installed in the squashfs is used, rather than the one that is installed on
the host itself.


>
> Ced.
>
> --
>
> Cedric BRINER
> Geneva - Switzerland
>
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Hope that it helps,
Hadar
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