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=== Status ===
 
=== Status ===
  
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* Debian chroot construction has been automated: see [http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/mstone/puritan/snapshot/puritan-sugar.tar.bz2 puritan-sugar.tar.bz2] and its [http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/mstone/puritan/tree/README?h=sugar README] -- [[User:Mstone|Michael Stone]] 20:33, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
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* sugar-chroot-0.1 released: see [http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/mstone/sugar-chroot sugar-chroot]
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* Sugar continues to run happily in Squeeze chroots. --[[User:Mstone|Michael Stone]] 16:30, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
 
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* Sugar is now somewhat runnable from chroots. Jaunty and Squeeze have been tested recently; Fedora has not. --[[User:Mstone|Michael Stone]] 22:21, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
 
  
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=== Chroot Construction ===
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=== Purpose ===
  
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There are lots of ways to create appropriate chroots; e.g. by hand, with debootstrap, with mock, etc.
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You want to test sugar, sugar patches, sugar packages, or sugar hacks. You want clean, reproducible environments. You want sugar-chroot.
  
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Here are some ideas to help you get started:
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=== Usage ===
  
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==== Ubuntu jaunty chroot ====
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As excerpted from the '''[http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/mstone/sugar-chroot/plain/README README]''':
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With ''recent'' versions of debootstrap, in order to get a working chroot, you want something like:  
 
  
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export CHROOT=`pwd`/jaunty-root
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sugar-chroot consists of simple scripts. Download and unpack them like so:
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sudo debootstrap --arch i386 jaunty $CHROOT http://ubuntu.media.mit.edu/ubuntu/
 
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sudo chroot $CHROOT /bin/bash -l
 
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mount -t proc proc /proc
 
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mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts
 
  
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==== Debian squeeze chroot ====
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NV=sugar-chroot-0.1
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With debootstrap, in order to get a working chroot, you want something like:  
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curl http://dev.laptop.org/~mstone/releases/SOURCES/$NV.tar.xz | tar Zxf $NV.tar.xz
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cd $NV
  
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export CHROOT=`pwd`/sid-root
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To use them, pick a supported distro:
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sudo debootstrap --arch i386 squeeze $CHROOT http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian
 
  
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  DISTRO=debian
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  mount -t tmpfs tmpfs $CHROOT/tmp
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  DISTRO=fedora
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mount -t proc proc $CHROOT/proc
 
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mount -t devpts devpts $CHROOT/dev/pts
 
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mount -t selinuxfs selinux $CHROOT/selinux
 
  
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# and to enter the chroot
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To configure:
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sudo chroot $CHROOT /bin/bash -l
 
  
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''Reference: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html ''
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echo $DISTRO > conf/distro
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$EDITOR conf/$DISTRO.mk
  
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''Note'': you can use approx to cache packages across multiple runs for faster testing:
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Then run
  
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apt-get install approx
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  sudo make r/distro
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echo 'debian http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian' >> /etc/approx/approx.conf
 
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/etc/init.d/approx restart
 
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  sudo debootstrap --arch i386 squeeze $CHROOT http://localhost:9999/debian
 
  
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==== Fedora rawhide chroot ====
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to install your chroot.
  
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We will use <tt>febootstrap</tt> to construct our Fedora chroot. Install it with:
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=== History ===
  
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yum install febootstrap            # or
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See http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=Development_Team/Chroot&oldid=36911 for the manual instructions which sugar-chroot automates.
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apt-get install febootstrap
 
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: ''(Note for Debian users -- Fedora 11 and up require versions of <tt>rpm</tt> built with fancy features. I have successfully run these instructions with rpm_4.7.1-4_i386, which, at the time, I built from sources in Debian Experimental.)''
 
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Then run it like so:
 
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export CHROOT=`pwd`/f11
 
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sudo febootstrap fedora-11 $CHROOT    # sugar-0.84
 
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or
 
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export CHROOT=`pwd`/f12
 
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sudo febootstrap fedora-12 $CHROOT    # sugar-0.85.5, at the time of writing
 
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Finally, as with Debian:
 
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# and some of the following:
 
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mount -t tmpfs tmpfs $CHROOT/tmp
 
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mount -t proc proc $CHROOT/proc
 
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mount -t devpts devpts $CHROOT/dev/pts
 
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mount -t selinuxfs selinux $CHROOT/selinux
 
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# and to enter the chroot
 
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sudo chroot $CHROOT /bin/bash -l
 
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==== Gentoo chroot ====
 
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Well, if you are familiar with regular Gentoo installation process(by using [http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/ Handbook] instead of GUI stuff) you should know how to setup Gentoo chtoot :). Otherwise use these instructions.
 
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* Firstly, you need Gentoo stage tarball. You can borrow it from any [http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrolrs2.xml mirror] (use releases/<platform>/current sub directory).
 
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* Lets think you are using stage3-i686-20090623.tar.bz2, then:
 
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mkdir chroot-gentoo
 
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tar xjpf stage3-i686-20090623.tar.bz2 -C chroot-gentoo
 
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mount -o bind /dev chroot-gentoo/dev
 
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mount -o bind /proc chroot-gentoo/proc
 
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chroot chroot-gentoo /bin/bash
 
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* To install sugar, use [[Community/Distributions/Gentoo|sugar-overlay]] or setup [[Development_Team/Jhbuild|sugar-jhbuild]] environment(with [[Community/Distributions/Gentoo#Packages|sugar-overlay]] you can install git packages as well).
 
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=== Sugar Installation ===
 
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==== jaunty chroot ====
 
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sed -ie "s/main/main universe/" /etc/apt/sources.list
 
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apt-get update
 
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apt-get install locales
 
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locale-gen "$LANG"
 
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dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
 
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apt-get install sugar sugar-activities
 
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# install your development tools here
 
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# patch (hopefully temporary) bugs
 
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sed -ie '114i\\        if not favorites_settings.layout: favorites_settings.layout = favoriteslayout.RingLayout.key' /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/jarabe/desktop/favoritesview.py
 
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==== squeeze chroot ====
 
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apt-get update
 
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apt-get install locales
 
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dpkg-reconfigure locales
 
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# edit /etc/hosts
 
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apt-get install education-desktop-sugar sugar-0.84
 
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# install your development tools here
 
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==== f12 chroot ====
 
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yum groupinstall sugar-desktop
 
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==== f11 chroot ====
 
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yum groupinstall sugar-desktop
 
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=== User Accounts ===
 
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For stupid reasons, it's necessary that Sugar run under a uid inside the chroot which exists as a real account outside the chroot. (Talk to the DBus people.)
 
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Consequently, ''as root'', run something like this ''both'' inside and outside the chroot:
 
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groupadd -g 64002 sugar
 
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useradd -m -u 64002 -g sugar -s /bin/bash sugar
 
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=== D-Bus ===
 
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Sugar wants to be able to use global state stored in both HAL and NetworkManager, both of which live on the system bus. Consequently, ''outside the chroot'', we need to
 
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sudo mount --bind /var/run/dbus $CHROOT/var/run/dbus
 
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before entering the chroot. (Mock uses unshare() to enter a new mount-point namespace since this makes garbage collection of mountpoints much easier.)
 
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=== X11 ===
 
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We need to point Sugar at an X server. One easy (but insecure) way to do this is to make a nested X server like so, ''outside the chroot'':
 
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Xephyr -ac :1 -screen 800x600x24 # 1024x768x24
 
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See the talk page for more secure alternatives.
 
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=== Running Sugar ===
 
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Then, inside the chroot, you can happily run sugar as user 'sugar' with something like
 
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sudo chroot $CHROOT /bin/bash -l
 
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su sugar -
 
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cd ~
 
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ulimit -c unlimited
 
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export DISPLAY=localhost:1
 
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export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=$(dbus-daemon --session --print-address --fork)
 
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sugar
 
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Then pull up the frame, switch to the home view, and launch some activities!
 
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=== Cleaning Up ===
 
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To correctly delete a chroot that you no longer need, kill all processes running in the chroot, and
 
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sudo killall -u sugar
 
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export CHROOT=/path/to/my/chroot  # important!
 
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umount $CHROOT/var/run/dbus
 
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umount $CHROOT/proc
 
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umount $CHROOT/dev/pts
 
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umount $CHROOT/tmp
 
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rm -rf $CHROOT
 

Revision as of 14:01, 23 January 2010

Status

Purpose

You want to test sugar, sugar patches, sugar packages, or sugar hacks. You want clean, reproducible environments. You want sugar-chroot.

Usage

As excerpted from the README:

sugar-chroot consists of simple scripts. Download and unpack them like so: 

NV=sugar-chroot-0.1
curl http://dev.laptop.org/~mstone/releases/SOURCES/$NV.tar.xz | tar Zxf $NV.tar.xz
cd $NV

To use them, pick a supported distro: 

DISTRO=debian
DISTRO=fedora

To configure: 

echo $DISTRO > conf/distro
$EDITOR conf/$DISTRO.mk

Then run 

sudo make r/distro

to install your chroot.

History

See http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=Development_Team/Chroot&oldid=36911 for the manual instructions which sugar-chroot automates.

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