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alcafar

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From: Italy

Registered: 2008-03-23

Posts: 47

How to configure the new package "schroot"?

I run arch64 with arch32 chroot, and inside the arch32 environment I configured a chroot to the original arch64, to allow me to run 64 bit apps from within the 32 bit environment.
You might wonder why I did that: because I use firefox at 32 bit, and if I click, for example, on a torrent file, I want to open with ktorrent (installed as a 64 bit app).
Today I did pacman -Syu in arch32, and dchroot was replaced by schroot, a new package also containing dchroot (but /etc/dchroot.conf was saved as /etc/dchroot.conf.pacsave, so I guess the idea is to make dchroot obsolete).
Now, after restoring /etc/dchroot.conf, if I type "dchroot -d ktorrent" it doesn't work.
I also made some attempts to configure schroot, but I didn't succeed.
Luckily the update to schroot is not yet ready for arch64, so the relevant chroot to call 32 bit apps from 64 bit environment is still working.
Any idea?
I strongly suggest, when schroot will show up in arch64, to not update unless you know how to configure schroot, or somebody comes out with the solution. After that, we should also update the wiki page.

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: How to configure the new package "schroot"?

The man pages provided by the new schroot package should help. The package also includes a default configuration for a 32-bit chroot in /opt/arch32, along with a number of commented examples.