At Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:59:45 +1100, Doug Stalker wrote: > From: Lester Cheung [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > What's the point of chrooting if you hardlink the files? > > It was for setting up a development environment - I basically wanted > different libraries under /lib without having to build an entire system. > 'cp -al' turned out to be the solution, as it crates all the needed > directories and populates them with hard-links to files.
note also 2.4's "bind" mounts which are real good for this, eg (/etc/fstab lines): /home /usr/local/chroot/unstable/home none bind 0 2 /tmp /usr/local/chroot/unstable/tmp none bind 0 2 /usr/local/src /usr/local/chroot/unstable/usr/local/src none bind 0 2 (on my system /home is in turn an nfs mount, so stuff like that still seems to work ok) -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
