GNU bug report logs - #34859
[PATCH] pack: "-RR" produces PRoot-enabled relocatable binaries.

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Package: guix-patches;

Reported by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 16:11:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 34859 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#34859] [PATCH] pack: "-RR" produces PRoot-enabled relocatable binaries.
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 15:24:54 +0100

How does it work? do you look for a proot on the system where the pack
is unpacked, or is it included in the pack? If so, how does it work,
since I guess it can't be wrapped?

One small issue in the manual:

Le 2019-03-14 17:10, Ludovic Courtès a écrit :
> From: Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr>
> 
> [...]
> 
> +@emph{twice}@footnote{Here's a trick to memorize it: @code{-RR}, which 
> adds
> +PRoot support, can be thought of as the abbreviation of ``Really
> +Relocatable''.  Neat, isn't it?}, relocatable binaries fall to back to 
> PRoot
                                                               ^ this 
here
> +if user namespaces are unavailable, and essentially work 
> anywhere---see below
> +for the implications.
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