Re: [Libguestfs] febootstrap failure
Richard W.M. Jones wrote: [Sat May 15 2010, 03:25:16PM EDT]
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:15:12AM -0400, Aron Griffis wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote: [Sat May 15 2010, 02:15:17AM EDT]
> > Don't run febootstrap as root.
>
> I'm a little confused about that. I understand the concept of
> fakeroot and fakechroot but I must be missing a piece of the
> puzzle. I want to build up a Fedora install that I will
> eventually boot into. At that point root should own the files.
> How does this work if I run febootstrap as a normal user?
When you run febootstrap-to-initramfs (also as non-root) it
will get the right permissions. However ...
Is this an assumption of febootstrap, and a difference from
debootstrap, that the eventual output will be an initramfs? I was
just looking to install a chroot for the moment.
> > You don't say what version of febootstrap you are using
or
> > what host you're using it from.
>
> I'm running on Ubuntu Lucid with the following versions:
>
> febootstrap 2.1-4
> fakechroot 2.9-1.1
> fakeroot 1.14.4-1ubuntu1
> yum 3.2.25-1ubuntu2
>
> Should I try again from git?
That version of febootstrap is fairly ancient. If you'd like to take
ownership of the Debian package, then please be my guest.
Thanks, but unfortunately I can't take that on right now.
In any case you need to retest this with a newer version,
ideally the latest version (2.7, released yesterday) or the
version from git.
Unforunately 2.7 fails the same way. I've tried "fedora-13",
"rawhide" and "fedora-12" and they all fail in the same manner.
At first I imagined it was specific to f13 but I see now that
it's more likely an issue in the host environment.
Unless you particularly want me to keep trying things, I'll just
switch over to installing a VM.
Thanks,
Aron