Re: [Freemint-discuss] Chroot Troubles

[Adam K. <ada...@gm...>]

IIRC chroot is done in MiNTlib, without kernel involvement. So, it depends
on how each binary was compiled.

AdamK

2018-02-17 4:38 GMT+01:00 Mark Duckworth <mdu...@at...>:

> Hello all,
>
> Once upon a time I was told that chroot in mint works fine.  I decided
> to try it and on the surface it looks good but when I dig deeper there
> is issues.  Here it is demonstrated.  Current kernel, coreutils chroot
> binary.
>
> Create a bootstrap under /root/bootstrap  Not much under there, just
> coreutils, rpm and a few other things.
>
> root@bf3:/root>chroot /root/bootstrap /bin/bash
> bash-2.05a# pwd
> /e/root/bootstrap
> bash-2.05a# ls
> bin  etc  sbin  usr  var
> bash-2.05a#
>
> Ok so bash doesn't find anything which means bash is respecting the
> chroot.  We did change directories but pwd can see it is not in a new root.
>
> bash-2.05a# ls
> bin  etc  sbin  usr  var
> bash-2.05a# pwd
> /
> bash-2.05a#
>
> Ok but we can go to / and the chroot is adhered to.  Maybe we can
> proceed.  What is under /var
>
> bash-2.05a# ls
> adm  catman  log
> bash-2.05a#
>
> Ok so proceed.
>
> bash-2.05a# rpm -qa
> automake-1.11.1-1
> info-4.0-2
> cpio-2.4.2-3
> procps-ng-3.3.2-1
> bzip2-1.0.2-1
>
> ....
>
> and so on.  The rpm database is the one from outside the chroot.  Any
> ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
>
>
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