name of the package: xchroot
license: QPL-like; see for the program header or run the program with
--license
short description: extended chroot with X11/Xorg forwarding and
aufs/unionfs support for read only roots
long description:
xchroot is a little convenience bash script that will allow you to
run X-based programs in your chroot environment.
You may also chroot to a new environment without touching any of its
files either by using aufs and unionfs. You
may backup your temporary changes on exit and kill of xchroot as
squashfs and incrementally restore them.
download URL:
http://www.elstel.org/xchroot
https://www.elstel.org/xchroot
why you should prefer packaging xchroot from elstel over xchroot from
mosquito:
* the program is known to deliver good quality since years and is also
officially recommended by the openSUSE build service guide
* the program is being actively developed; completely new features are
planned.
* there is a good online documentation for the program which does also
leverage usage by casual users and users new to Linux
* the incremental --save and --restore options not supported by mosquito
will make life of packagers easy and leverage usage from read-only root
file systems like roots on blue ray
* unionfs as well as aufs support guarantee for a broad applicability;
f.i. when dual booting between a distribution that only supports unionfs
* support also for casual users
why you should not package xchroot from mosquito:
* no accomplished cleanup, kill -9 of processes, bugs and fallacies I do
not want to talk about.
* writing a completely different program and then giving it the same
name as an already existent program will confuse innocent users (mine
has already been there for years and it has been published under the
name xchroot for a much longer time.)
* the program has not been tested well under different conditions
* no unionfs, no socat, no incremental restore, no good automounting
support.
* no backward compatibility with Debian 6.0.x
* the authors did not respond at all on my request to join the work on
elstel and to put xchroot under a better, generally accepted license
P.S.: I believe it would also be good choice to support this script
under the rescue console. When chrooting to a debian installation you
will otherwise have to mount a lot while mounting everything of use is
still too much for manual usage. This is a very common task for
maintenance activities; I even do that when running grub-install.
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