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Sugar ought to be easy to run from chroots. For a variety of silly reasons, this isn't yet the case, but it might be soon. Ping [[User:Mstone|Michael]] with questions.
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=== Status ===
  
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=== Chroot Construction ===
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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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There are lots of ways to create appropriate chroots; e.g. by hand, with debootstrap, with mock, etc.
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=== Purpose ===
  
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Here are some ideas to help you get started:
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''You want to hack sugar. You don't want to fuss around. '''You want sugar-chroot.'''''
  
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==== Ubuntu jaunty chroot ====
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=== Usage ===
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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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As excerpted from the '''[http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/mstone/sugar-chroot/plain/README README]''':
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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 sid chroot ====
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sugar-chroot consists of simple scripts. Download and unpack them like so:
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With debootstrap, in order to get a working chroot, you want something like:  
 
  
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  export CHROOT=`pwd`/sid-root
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  NV=sugar-chroot-0.1
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  sudo debootstrap --arch i386 sid $CHROOT http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian
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  curl http://dev.laptop.org/~mstone/releases/SOURCES/$NV.tar.xz | tar Zxf $NV.tar.xz
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sudo chroot $CHROOT /bin/bash -l
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  cd $NV
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# and some of the following:
 
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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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''Reference: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html ''
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To use them, pick a supported distro:
  
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==== Fedora rawhide chroot ====
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DISTRO=debian
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With mock, it would be more like:
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DISTRO=fedora
  
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mock -r fedora-devel-i386 --init
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To configure:
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mock -r fedora-devel-i386 --shell
 
  
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=== Sugar Installation ===
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echo $DISTRO > conf/distro
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$EDITOR conf/$DISTRO.mk
  
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==== jaunty chroot ====
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Then run
  
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  sed -ie "s/main/main universe/" /etc/apt/sources.list
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  sudo make r/distro
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apt-get update
 
  
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apt-get install locales
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to install your chroot.
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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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=== History ===
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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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=== User Accounts ===
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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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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
 
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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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export DISPLAY=: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!
 

Latest revision as of 20:33, 23 February 2010

Status

Purpose

You want to hack sugar. You don't want to fuss around. 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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