Hi,
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Sure, can you comment on the best approach? Are the names of the
> > binaries hardcoded everywhere?
> >
> > Would shipping a libapt and binaries in a non-standard prefix be
> > acceptable? e.g. --libdir /usr/lib/apt-rpm.
> >
> > I can easily change mach to use a different apt-get than the first
> > in the PATH I suppose, I will have to change it anyway if we rename
> > the binaries.
> Where is this going to be installed? If it goes into the chroot, you
> wouldn't have to rename anything, just uninstall the real apt.
The concept is to use the host's apt-get / yum with a "target" root
directory being the chroot. E.g. "yum
--installroot=/var/lib/mach/roots/fedora-development-i386-core" would
be invoked to install the downloaded RPMs in the chroot. I suppose yum
cascades this to "rpm --root" (except yum uses the Python bindings to
invoke RPM, not "rpm"). I didn't try it yet, but I suppose the
"apt-get" backend of mach works in the same way, as it generated an
apt.conf file with:
...
RPM {
Ignore { };
Hold { };
Allow-Duplicated { "^gpg-pubkey$" };
Source {
Build-Command "rpmbuild --rebuild";
};
GPG-Check "false";
RootDir "/var/lib/mach/roots/fedora-development-i386-core";
Options { "--promoteepoch"; }
Install-Options "--root /var/lib/mach/roots/fedora-development-i386-core";
Erase-Options "--root /var/lib/mach/roots/fedora-development-i386-core";
}
Dir {
Etc "/var/lib/mach/states/fedora-development-i386-core/apt/etc/apt";
Cache "/var/cache/mach/fedora-development-i386/apt";
State
"/var/lib/mach/states/fedora-development-i386-core/apt/var/state/apt";
Bin { scripts "/dev/null"; }; // do not execute lua scripts
}
So apt-rpm must really be installed on the host, on the side of the
host's apt-get. mach not only bootstraps the chroot with the host's
apt-get or yum, it wont even install yum or apt-get in the chroot by
default, as updates and upgrades are handled with the hosts apt-get/yum
as well with "mach yum" and "mach apt-get" (not all commands are
wrapped like this, only yum, apt-get and apt-cache).
Bye,
--
Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
