Subject: Re: bug#36117: qemu-binfmt with non-native chroot

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 14:25:43 +0200

Hi!

Vagrant Cascadian <[email-masked]> skribis:

> That said, it's still a manual step (mounting /gnu or /gnu/store/qemu*)
> required to do something that could otherwise be handled transparently
> with a static build of qemu and adjusting the binfmt_misc flags... so if
> permitted to dream, I still think that would be a nice option to have
> available. :)

Yes, it sounds like we could/should do that too!

We’ll end up having big qemu-* binaries, each one with its own copy of
glibc, for instance.  Is there something smart we could do to avoid
ending up with a huge package?

Thanks,
Ludo’.