On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:08:32AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:33:21AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 09:15:26AM +0100, Chris Davies wrote: > > > Roger Leigh <rle...@codelibre.net> wrote: > > Arguably, we should probably document the setup procedure. While > > we describe all the configuration options, we don't detail how to > > set up the actual chroot--it's assumed it already exists, though > > we should probably include examples of how to create them. > > I think you have enough information already. They are just a bit > convoluted, though. > > In schroot(8), you have sbuild(8) as SEE ALSO. > > Then, in sbuild(8), you have sbuild-setup(7) and sbuild-createchroot(8) > as SEE ALSO. > > There are enough information in sbuild-setup(7) and > sbuild-createchroot(8) needed for making chroot. > > I wish a bit more direct and obvious connection from schroot(8) to > the content of sbuild-setup(7). > > In some way, sbuild-setup(7) could be renamed as schroot-setup(7) and > moved into schroot package, etc. There may be additional reorganization > needed along with this change. Then everything is quite tidy and nice.
Yes, I agree the organisation could be much better. Note that I have on my plan (http://wiki.debian.org/Schroot/Roadmap#Easy items 2 and 3) the automatic bootstrapping of a new chroot, which would make all of the sbuild and schroot chroot setup completely transparent. Essentially, you could have a chroot definition in /etc/schroot/chroot.d provided by a package. But there would also be some additional keys telling it which repository, suite etc. to use to run debootstrap. So the user would just run "schroot --create -c $name" and it will run all the setup scripts with a "create" argument. The package postinst could even do this automatically. And this would be usable by hand- make chroots as well, so you never need to deal with all those setup instructions, it will just be built-in. Note: this probably won't be achievable in the wheezy freeze timeframe, but certainly for wheezy+1. Once this is done, I'll be able to reorganise the documentation to be much friendlier! And tools like sbuild-createchroot will no longer need to exist--their setup tasks can just be merged with the chroot setup scripts. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120518181352.gj22...@codelibre.net
