Bug 25887

Summary:	xchroot New package request: allows to run GUI applications from a chroot environment
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb>
Component:	New RPM package request	Assignee:	All Packagers <pkg-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://www.elstel.org/xchroot/
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	xchroot-2.4-3.1.src.rpm xchroot-2.4.1.src.rpm (correct release number & changelog entry)

Description Elmar Stellnberger 2019-12-15 18:54:35 CET

Would you be interested in having xchroot for Mageia? Perhaps I can adapt the openSUSE rpm for your distribution:
https://build.opensuse.org/project/requests/home:estellnb:elstel
https://www.elstel.org/xchroot/

  The program allows to run GUI applications from a chroot environment transparently with audio support. That means you add a desktop file for the host installation and you can run the chroot application via file associations or the GUI menu. Besides this the program is also handy for low level tasks like bootloader installation because it mounts /dev, /sys and /proc automatically. That is why it would basically also pay off to have it at the rescue console:
> xchroot /mnt
> grub-install /dev/sda
... is all you need to do

Jani Välimaa 2019-12-15 20:35:10 CET

Component: RPM Packages => New RPM package request

Comment 1 Lewis Smith 2019-12-17 14:29:10 CET

Thank you for your interest.

Assigning this package request to all packagers collectively. On a voluntary basis, one of them might, if there are no license or other legal issues, want to integrate it to the distribution and maintain it for bug and security fixes.

You Elmar might also want to join the packager team to maintain this piece of software: see https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager.
Your offer:
> Perhaps I can adapt the openSUSE rpm for your distribution
is decent. Please do pursue it. If you do, and the result - at least the package spec file(s) - is small enough, it could be attached to this bug.

Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs
Summary: wish: xchroot package for Mageia => xchroot New package request: allows to run GUI applications from a chroot environment

Comment 2 Elmar Stellnberger 2019-12-23 10:22:51 CET

Created attachment 11426 [details]
xchroot-2.4-3.1.src.rpm

Here is the package built under Mageia for review.

Comment 3 Elmar Stellnberger 2019-12-23 10:30:10 CET

Created attachment 11427 [details]
xchroot-2.4.1.src.rpm (correct release number & changelog entry)

Attachment 11426 is obsolete: 0 => 1