Hi Jonas, thanks for the pointer. I was hoping for a solution like mmdebstrap. Will give it a try or will at least use it as inspiration.
Thanks a lot, Christoph On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 1:25 PM Jonas Smedegaard <jo...@jones.dk> wrote: > Hi Christoph, > > Quoting Christoph Müllner (2020-02-09 12:54:56) > > I'd like to run the second stage of debootstrap without root rights, > > but for another architecture (host is x86_64 and target is arm64). > > > > I know how to do all that with root rights (i.e qemu-aarch64-static > > works perfectly here, also, I can recommend using qemu-debootstrap), > > but I can't figure out a way how to do that without root rights. > > > > I was expecting that fakechroot and fakeroot will do the necessary > > "magic" to make chroot work for my use-case, but that's not the case > > (I need to have libfakeroot.so and libfakechroot.so in the target > > rootfs, but I could not find a reliable way to get them in). > > > > I found some emails in the archives about similar use cases (from ~10 > > years ago). But I failed to identify the solution in those cases. > > > > Therefore I'd like to ask if anyone has a solution for my use case or > > some hints/pointers. > > Have a look at mmdebstrap! > > The author of that tool - Johannes Schauer - has long fought for ways to > eliminate the need for being root to bootstrap Debian, and mmdebstrap is > as I understand it the state of the art of that! > > > - Jonas > > -- > * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt > * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ > > [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private >
