On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 12:15:54PM +0200, Brederlow wrote: > The ld.so doesn't exist (its part of glibc), but the ldso.deb still > exists (But has to be build without ld.so).
Already done IIRC. If so expect it in Incoming this morning. > Yep, Bugs are normaly unexpected. :) > dpkg does a chroot to the root enviroment, but it still calls the > preinstall scripts with the path to the root enviroment in front of > it. The link will translate that extra root enviroment to / and then > it works. I may be fixing this one this week also...... > The patch compiles it without the ld.so, but with the other stuff > thats in the ldso.deb. ld.so, if I got that right, is just a link and > is integrated into libc, but theres other stuff to that package as > well. Right - ldconfig for example. > Install your slink system to /mnt/newroot and then do "chroot > /mnt/newroot /bin/bash". Then any access to /xxx will go to > /mnt/newroot/xxx until that bash is closed. The bins will be loaded > from there, the libs, everything. There is no way to get below > /mnt/newroot and destroy anything. Its real nice for testing or for > security with ftp/www server (they use that too :). Hate to tell you but it's just a little trickier :) It is possible to break out of chroot with a little work. > Any ftp site of that? Nope. But slightly less bleeding edge sources are available on ftp.linuxppc.org. dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]