> AFAICS there is no way to build a release without upgrading > the base system first, i.e. you have to have root privileges. > > To keep things simple, I wonder if it would be possible to use > these privileges to avoid the noperm partition?
noperm is now so well established, we have already forgotten the various tricks to during the transition, even moreso since there wasn't one transition it was done in steps. As we've said before, use a snapshot to jump over such changes.
