Christian Aichinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 10:24:32AM +0000, Reinhard Tartler wrote: >> The sbuild package in debian however adds more features, like >> schroot support. With this, it can use schroot to create >> temporary, clean chroots from tarballs, block devices, create lvm >> snapshots on the fly and so on. I read Roger, that even xen >> support is planned.
Xen support is planned, but not for the immediate future. I'm waiting on its inclusion in the kernel, and a working powerpc32 port. So it's more of a medium- to long-term goal, unless there are any Xen fanatics who step up to do it sooner :) >> schroot is another very very useful tool. It gives me more or less >> instant access to clean chroots on lvm snapshots for experimenting, >> building, developing and testing. > > When I didn't know schroot could do this I wrote a script to do that > myself: > http://greek0.net/lvmchroot/lvmchroot_0.5-1.dsc > > It's geared towards creating and maintaining chroots on LVM logical > volumes, creating snapshots as needed. It also takes care of > creating the initial chroots on LVs, it can automatically upgrade > them, etc. > > Plus they're better documented (IMHO) as schroot, for which I > couldn't find any useful docs. A complete copy of the docs is here: https://alioth.debian.org/docman/?group_id=30471 I agree they aren't the most user-friendly in the world; some additional explanatory material would help a great deal. I think schroot has a slightly different focus, which would account for the differences. schroot focuses on allowing user access to, and maintainence of chroots. It plays no part in the initial chroot creation, or performing stuff like keeping them up-to-date. It delegates this to other tools, like debootstrap and the sbuild chroot tools (in /usr/share/sbuild). lvmchroot, on the other hand, assists with initial chroot setup, and snapshot creation but doesn't handle the chroot(2) stuff to allow user access. As a result, I think the two tools could complement each other nicely. I would be very happy to add additional helper scripts to schroot, and merge missing features. One thing we don't currently do is allow the user to specify the LVM snapshot name; it gets a UUID. Having this as an option would be nice. Some of the sbuild scripts could also be merged with lvmchroot, such as buildd.chroot. > If the schroot maintainers agree we could try to merge my stuff into > schroot. That would be really cool. We are part of the buildd-tools project on Alioth: https://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools/ so subscribing to the list would be a good first step. The current SVN is at svn://svn.debian.org/svn/buildd-tools/trunk/schroot Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please sign and encrypt your mail.
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