On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Aug 1, 2014 3:46 PM, "J. Roeleveld" <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: >> >> On 1 August 2014 15:28:01 CEST, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >Peter Humphrey wrote: >> >> On Friday 01 August 2014 14:07:08 I wrote: >> >> >> >>> I run a couple of chroots on this box to build packages for other >> >boxes on >> >>> the LAN. So far, I haven't worked out what I should populate >> >/etc/mtab with >> >>> in each chroot. Is it enough to "grep ext4 /etc/mtab > >> >>> /mnt/chroot/etc/mtab"? That catches all the physical partitions, but >> >I >> >>> imagine I need to add some /proc, /sys and /dev entries as well, but >> >is >> >>> there a simple formula for doing this? >> >> I meant to add that one chroot is 32-bit and the other is 64. The >> >host is an >> >> i5 running openrc. >> >> >> > >> >It has been a good while since I used this. So, make sure it makes >> >sense to you before trying this. This may not work if something has >> >changed in the past several years. Use with caution if at all. >> > >> >This is a little script, if you want to call it that, that I used to do >> >mine. It also lists the command to use to do a 32 bit chroot from a 64 >> >bit rig. Here it is: >> > >> >root@fireball / # cat /root/xx.chroot-mount-32bit >> > >> > >> >mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo32/dev >> >mount -o bind /dev/pts /mnt/gentoo32/dev/pts >> >mount -o bind /dev/shm /mnt/gentoo32/dev/shm >> >mount -o bind /proc /mnt/gentoo32/proc >> >mount -o bind /proc/bus/usb /mnt/gentoo32/proc/bus/usb >> >mount -o bind /sys /mnt/gentoo32/sys >> >mkdir -p /mnt/gentoo32/usr/portage/ >> >mount -o bind /usr/portage /mnt/gentoo32/usr/portage/ >> > >> > >> >echo " mounting finished" >> > >> >echo "run linux32 chroot /mnt/gentoo32 /bin/bash next" >> >root@fireball / # >> > >> > >> >You may have different mount points at the very least so edit to match >> >what you have. Again, things could have changed and that no longer >> >will >> >work. It may not be a bad idea to let someone who has done this more >> >recently to give a thumbs up to that. >> > >> >That last command should be: >> > >> >linux32 chroot /mnt/gentoo32 /bin/bash >> > >> >Dale >> > >> >:-) :-) >> >> That script is too long :) >> >> cd /mnt/gentoo >> mount -o rbind /dev dev >> mount -o rbind /sys sys >> mount -o rbind /proc proc >> cp -L /etc/resolv.conf etc/resolv.conf >> cd .. >> chroot gentoo /bin/bash >> >> To undo: >> cd /mnt/gentoo >> umount -l proc sys dev > > That's still too long :) > > With systemd-nspawn, you only do: > > systemd-nspawn -D /mnt/gentoo > > Systemd takes care of /dev, /sys, etc. If the container has systemd > installed, you can do > > systemd-nspawn -bD /mnt/gentoo > > and the services inside the container will be started like in a regular boot > (you'll need to set the root password for the container). > > Also, if you want to share the /usr/portage directory between host and > container, you only need to > > systemd-nspawn --bind=/usr/portage -bD /mnt/gentoo
Oh, and I forgot: to stop the container, just log out if the container runs OpenRC, or run systemctl poweroff if the container runs systemd. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México