On 04/10/2013 05:39:41 AM, Purcareata Bogdan-B43198 wrote: > Hello, > > Thank you very much for your reply! I'm sorry for sending this in a > hurry, and not providing enough explanations. Please find my > additional comment inline. > > Thank you, > Bogdan P. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Serge Hallyn [mailto:serge.hal...@ubuntu.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 4:12 PM > > To: Purcareata Bogdan-B43198 > > Cc: lxc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: Re: [lxc-devel] [PATCH] Enable support for chroot on > busybox hosts > > > > Quoting Bogdan Purcareata (bogdan.purcare...@freescale.com): > > > Signed-off-by: Bogdan Purcareata <bogdan.purcare...@freescale.com> > > > > We generally prefer that mounting be done in a fresh namespace > > (lxc-unsahre -s MOUNT -- actions). If lxc-busybox were switched to > be > > 'set -e', it could leave lingering mounts (and we might not notice > > this still being done). > > > > Do you mind changing it to do that? > > What I am trying to do is install a busybox container on a busybox > host. > > When running the template, in order to change the root password, I > need to do that chroot. But on my host, the chroot utility is not > part of the coreutils package - it's part of busybox. And the busybox > implementation for chroot only works if it has /lib in the new root > populated with the right executables (or at least that's the solution > I found to make it work). > > My patch for this was to temporarily bind-mount /lib in the NEWROOT, > chroot there, change the password, go back and unmount. All this is > done while installing the template, and the mount should last only > while executing the chroot command. > > Is there a better way of achieving this?
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