RFC: new mock: strategy, selinux, etc.

[Jesse Keating]

On Friday 05 January 2007 12:46, Axel Thimm wrote:
> The question is whether that is technically possible - for what I use
> at ATrpms, an ancient bunch of shell scripts being the equivalent of
> mock, I use fakechroot/fakeroot to maintain chroots as a simple
> user. I think that will work with eliminating the need for the chroot
> part in the mock helper as well. If we check the remaining parts in
> mock requiring root priviledges (perhaps just for mounting?) perhaps
> we can eliminate these, too, and end up with a pure non-root working
> mock.

Would one still be able to do things IN the chroot like create loopback images 
and write to them?  I need mock to be able to compose trees, which requires 
these types of things.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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