From: Brian Mitchell Date: 2005-02-28T04:29:04+09:00 Subject: Re: [OT] Is anyone (else) running Rubyx? On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 19:05:04 +0900, Csaba Henk wrote: > On 2005-02-27, Brian Mitchell wrote: > > It is going under a complete rewrite (still in Ruby AFAIK). The new > > version will probably debut under a new name (Heretix seemed to win > > out on the ML). Andrew mentioned some sort of release (preview or > > not?) this week-end though as hes accomplished a lot already and has > > gone through having a case of the flu I would not hold him to any > > deadline. > > Sound interesting! And it just got more interesting. Some details have emerged on some new features... I would read the archives of the Rubyx-ML and join (more appropriate place for certain conversations). > > > > > I have been waiting on this release to begin real work on enabling > > installation under the home directory of a user (not unlike > > gobo-linux). I hope this will allow Heretix/Rubyx to become more > > accessible to people who can't or don't want to install a separate OS > > from the one they use now (limited to Linux of course, probably 2.6 > > too). I have all kinds of crazy ideas but this is one I want to take a > > stab at (I have yet to see how easy it will be with the new design). > > Hm, given that it's a source-based distro, why can't you just specify > any directory as root dir? The installer can chroot to any dir to do the > job, as far as it's mounted read/write... > > Or you mean, that no root privileged action is done during this type of > installation? If the user does't have root acces, how will she use it > then? Otherwise, why is it good to refrain from privileged moves? Chroot > is safe enough imho, if you just care about not messing up the base > system... > chroot require root privileges as you mentioned. My project will not ... at least I am going to try not to. Go read the Rubyx ML archives where I outline this further. starts here (I also mention it in a few other threads): http://lists.walrond.org/pipermail/rubyx/2005-February/000867.html I know this is trying to cut around the chroot step which is easy but I want this available w/o root access on any machine. There is no reason one needs root access to install some of their own programs (ever seen ~/bin ?)... why not make it easy and just let them have an entire custom distribution? I am also still brainstorming. I did do a little work on it but decided to delay for the upcoming release. If you have any better ideas on how to execute this please tell as I am going in with almost no experience with this kind of thing. > Csaba > > Brian.