On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 05:47:23PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > pbuilder requires root to install the packages inside chroot to > satisfy dependencies, and to actually move into the chroot. > > To be able to satisfy build-dependencies without root privilage, > one will need to run dpkg with a different target than /, > which in turn requires postinst scripts to run with a different > target than /. I've started writing "fakechroot" to try and run dpkg with > a different root directory by overriding libc functions, but it isn't yet > working fully, and it's probably going to take a pretty long time, > because there is a lot of functions to override. > > > pbuilder tries to switch to a normal user privilage inside the chroot, > and run fakeroot inside it, if you specify that in the pbuilder config file.
I have been working on a system which can use UML for the entire process of bootstrapping a system, installing and building packages, all without root access. Unfortunately, this will currently only work on i386 platforms, but has the potential to be very useful for Debian work. -- - mdz
