Difference between revisions of "Development Team/Chroot"

Latest revision as of 20:33, 23 February 2010

Status

sugar-chroot-0.1 released: see sugar-chroot

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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-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)
+=== Status ===
-=== Chroot Construction ===
+* sugar-chroot-0.1 released: see [http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/mstone/sugar-chroot sugar-chroot]
-There are lots of ways to create appropriate chroots; e.g. by hand, with debootstrap, with mock, etc.
+=== Purpose ===
-Here are some ideas to help you get started:
+''You want to hack sugar. You don't want to fuss around. '''You want sugar-chroot.'''''
-==== Ubuntu jaunty chroot ====
+=== Usage ===
-With ''recent'' versions of debootstrap, in order to get a working chroot, you want something like:
- export CHROOT=`pwd`/jaunty-root
+As excerpted from the '''[http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/mstone/sugar-chroot/plain/README README]''':
- sudo debootstrap --arch i386 jaunty $CHROOT http://ubuntu.media.mit.edu/ubuntu/
- sudo chroot $CHROOT /bin/bash -l
- mount -t proc proc /proc
- mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts
-==== Debian squeeze chroot ====
+sugar-chroot consists of simple scripts. Download and unpack them like so:
-With debootstrap, in order to get a working chroot, you want something like:
-  export CHROOT=`pwd`/sid-root
+  NV=sugar-chroot-0.1
-  sudo debootstrap --arch i386 squeeze $CHROOT http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian
+  curl http://dev.laptop.org/~mstone/releases/SOURCES/$NV.tar.xz | tar Zxf $NV.tar.xz
- sudo chroot $CHROOT /bin/bash -l
+  cd $NV
- # and some of the following:
- mount -t tmpfs tmpfs $CHROOT/tmp
- mount -t proc proc $CHROOT/proc
- mount -t devpts devpts $CHROOT/dev/pts
-  mount -t selinuxfs selinux $CHROOT/selinux
-''Reference: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html ''
+To use them, pick a supported distro:
-==== Fedora rawhide chroot ====
+ DISTRO=debian
-With mock, it would be more like:
+ DISTRO=fedora
- mock -r fedora-devel-i386 --init
+To configure:
- mock -r fedora-devel-i386 --install yum
- mock -r fedora-devel-i386 --shell
-=== Sugar Installation ===
+ echo $DISTRO > conf/distro
+ $EDITOR conf/$DISTRO.mk
-==== jaunty chroot ====
+Then run
-  sed -ie "s/main/main universe/" /etc/apt/sources.list
+  sudo make r/distro
- apt-get update
- apt-get install locales
- locale-gen "$LANG"
- dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
- apt-get install sugar sugar-activities
- # install your development tools here
- # patch (hopefully temporary) bugs
- sed -ie '114i\\        if not favorites_settings.layout: favorites_settings.layout = favoriteslayout.RingLayout.key' /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/jarabe/desktop/favoritesview.py
-==== squeeze chroot ====
+to install your chroot.
- apt-get update
+=== History ===
- apt-get install locales
- dpkg-reconfigure locales
- # edit /etc/hosts
- apt-get install education-desktop-sugar
+See http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=Development_Team/Chroot&oldid=36911 for the manual instructions which sugar-chroot automates.
- # install your development tools here
- # fix broken hippocanvas
- echo "deb-src http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian squeeze main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
- apt-get update
- apt-get install apt-src devscripts
- apt-src install python-hippocanvas
- cd *hippo*
- DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip debuild -us -uc
- cd ..
- dpkg -i *hippo*.deb
-=== User Accounts ===
-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.)
-Consequently, ''as root'', run something like this ''both'' inside and outside the chroot:
- groupadd -g 64002 sugar
- useradd -m -u 64002 -g sugar -s /bin/bash sugar
-=== D-Bus ===
-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
- sudo mount --bind /var/run/dbus $CHROOT/var/run/dbus
-before entering the chroot. (Mock uses unshare() to enter a new mount-point namespace since this makes garbage collection of mountpoints much easier.)
-=== X11 ===
-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'':
- Xephyr -ac :1 -screen 800x600x24 # 1024x768x24
-See the talk page for more secure alternatives.
-=== Running Sugar ===
-Then, inside the chroot, you can happily run sugar as user 'sugar' with something like
- sudo chroot $CHROOT /bin/bash -l
- su sugar -
- export DISPLAY=localhost:1
- export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=$(dbus-daemon --session --print-address --fork)
- sugar
-Then pull up the frame, switch to the home view, and launch some activities!
-=== Cleaning Up ===
-To correctly delete a chroot that you no longer need, kill all processes running in the chroot, and
- sudo killall -u sugar
- export CHROOT=/path/to/my/chroot  # important!
- umount $CHROOT/var/run/dbus
- umount $CHROOT/proc
- umount $CHROOT/dev/pts
- umount $CHROOT/tmp
- rm -rf $CHROOT

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