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Re: fakechroot + fakeroot for mobile terminals:



Hi Mahesh,

Quoting Mahesh Hegde (2018-11-27 05:03:05)
> There exist many apps to run debian / other rootfs on unrooted android 
> phones.
> 
> Mostly all of them rely upon `proot` which uses `ptrace` syscall to 
> create virtual file systems.
> 
> I think pairing `fakechroot` & `fakeroot` may be a better alternative 
> in terms of performance, because
[...]
> So I would like to know if it is possible for debian project to build 
> these kinda packages in a versatile way that they can properly be used 
> from any android terminal without requiring 3rd party builds. We 
> already have `cdebootstrap` etc.. therefore it would be great.

It seems to me you are asking about use of these tools outside of the 
Debian environment.  As such, you probably have better success raising 
such questions upstream at each of those source projects.


 - Jonas

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