1.1 --- a/README.txt Fri Jul 25 00:54:42 2008 +0200
1.2 +++ b/README.txt Sun Jul 27 19:30:09 2008 +0200
1.3 @@ -19,11 +19,15 @@
1.4 Copyright and licence information can be found in the docs directory - see
1.5 docs/COPYING.txt and docs/gpl-3.0.txt for more information.
1.6
1.7 +Thanks to Piotr Roszatycki, the maintainer of fakechroot, for helpfully fixing
1.8 +system call coverage in that utility in order to support cross-distribution
1.9 +bootstrapping.
1.10 +
1.11 Dependencies
1.12 ------------
1.13
1.14 fakeroot Tested with 1.5.10ubuntu2
1.15 -fakechroot Tested with 2.5-1.1
1.16 +fakechroot 2.8 or later required
1.17 debootstrap Tested with 0.3.3.2ubuntu3 on Ubuntu Hoary 5.04, 1.0.7~feisty1
1.18 on Ubuntu Hoary 7.04
1.19
1.20 @@ -160,14 +164,3 @@
1.21 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`./user-path /usr/lib`
1.22 export PYTHONPATH=`./user-path /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/`
1.23 export PYTHONPATH=${PYTHONPATH}:`./user-path /var/lib/python-support/python2.5`
1.24 -
1.25 -Notes on Foreign Distribution Package Management
1.26 -------------------------------------------------
1.27 -
1.28 -It appears potentially impossible to create a package management "sandbox" for
1.29 -other distributions than the one in use, at least with the fakeroot and
1.30 -fakechroot tools employed by user-setup. However, as the root user it is
1.31 -possible to create such a sandbox and to run programs inside it, just like a
1.32 -normal "chroot jail". To create the sandbox, run the following command:
1.33 -
1.34 -user-setup-as-root