Friday, January 28, 2005

Chroot versus sudo

i dropped the sudoer idea ... i could never get the privileges for everything
correct. when i built a software it would have the ptxdist user as the creator
of the software. what a pain in neck. also i needed to be able to wipe whole
directores without questions. so i build a mandrake chroot.
i launched vmware build a small X-less mandrake 9.2 install made sure that
that i had the developement tools where installed.
i reworked a chroot script i had floating around and entered
the chroot.
i was missing bison and flex so installed these rpms
and i need mc (midnight commanderd) this needed glib (yuck).
so i download version 4.1.5 of mc and rebuilt and intstalled
it to the chroot, and did the same for subversion 1.0.6.
download the tarball compile and install. i am going to
see if i can just build everything in the chroot. if a
script goes haywire the worst that happens is i loose the chroot,
not my working system.

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