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[Marco Cagnoli]

Thank you mpb,
I read regularly the list and I know you use rootless on ubuntu.
I hope you will help me with issues I will encounter during the journey... 

In the past I reported several bugs about bash/dash and they have been 
fixed, however, always in the past, I can't run rootless on ubuntu without 
changing by hand dash with bash. I don't like this solution. 

I thnk rootless could be a really intersting solution to install packages 
(well, compile from source) in every distribution. I'm really intersted in 
understanding its flexibility and portability. 

Marco 

mpb writes: 

> Hi, 
> 
>> On 10/16/07, Marco Cagnoli <marco.cagnoli at oltrelinux.com> wrote:
>> > after a while I would like to test newly gobo rootless. I'm now using a
>> > CentOS as base operative system instead of ubuntu and I hope this will solve
>> > some problems experimented in my previous experience (dash related
>> > issues...).
> 
> I use Rootless extensively on Ubuntu.  I was always able to work
> around the dash/bash problems by changing /bin/sh to point to
> /bin/bash.  Additionally, the Gobo dev team considers these problems
> with dash to be bugs in the Gobo tools, and has been fixing dash
> related issues when they are reported.  It may be that all the dash
> issues are now fixed.  I cannot say for sure as I have not tested
> Rootless with dash in a while. 
> 
>> > 1) can I compile recipes downloaded from the web site? 
>>
>> Yes.
> 
> I'd say: Yes, mostly.  There are a few recipes that assume Compile
> will be run as root.  One example (last I checked) was Postfix.  There
> are probably a few others, too.  But most recipes work fine on
> Rootless.  I have also come across several Recipes that use hardcoded
> paths like /System instead of $goboPrefix/System.  But these are
> pretty easy to fix when you find them. 
> 
>> > 2) can I install packages downloaded from the web site? 
>>
>> No, because they'll have references to /Programs, which you won't have.
> 
> I'd say: No, with a few exceptions, such as Compile, Scripts, Atool.
> But I almost always Compile. 
> 
>> > 3) if I make a new recipe in rootless, will it be usable from other users
>> > (rootless and not)? 
>>
>> Yes.
> 
> I'd say: Yes, mostly.  It's hard to figure out what all the (Gobo
> specific) Dependencies should be.  But that can always be fixed later
> on by someone who actually is running GoboLinux. 
> 
> Gobo Rootless is a major time saver for compiling and installing
> software from source code on your favorite Linux distribution. 
> 
> -mpb
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