Hi, Sorry I'm not sure I understand, but anyway as far as I know you have to be root already to use chroot, and the main goal of fakeroot is to avoid having to become root when you don't really need to. So fakeroot just gives the appearances of being root without actually running anything as root.
Thanks, Richard On Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 12:30:30PM +0100, Tom Smyth wrote: > Hi Richard, > pardon my ignorance but would chroot with a copy of the / and sub > directories, do the same thing ? > > thanks > > On Sat, 3 Oct 2020 at 12:30, Richard Ipsum <richardip...@vx21.xyz> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I needed fakeroot for some tests I'm writing, but it seemed to be Linux > > only and looked like it would be hard to port. > > > > So I've written a fakeroot clone for OpenBSD, it's not complete but it > > does enough to be useful to me personally, if anyone's interested the > > code is here: https://git.vx21.xyz/sfakeroot/ > > > > Since OpenBSD's coreutils are statically linked and it needs LD_PRELOAD > > to work you'll probably want to use it with sbase[1] to be able to do > > anything useful. > > > > Thanks, > > Richard > > > > [1]: https://git.suckless.org/sbase/ > > > > > -- > Kindest regards, > Tom Smyth.
