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[Mario Lipinski <mario AT cacert.org>]

Hi,

Am 12.01.11 03:16, schrieb Wytze van der Raay:
>> > Wytze? What do you expect is the effort needed to upgrade the chroot
>> > environment? Do you have experience in upgrading chroot environments
>> > like that one (manual work or using existing scripts)?
> I wrote the script to build the current chroot environment (basically
> reverse engineering it from the chroot that we inherited over the years).
> My plan is to iteratively adjust that script until it is capable of
> generating a proper chroot environment with the full application on
> Debian Lenny (rather than Debian Etch for which the current script was
> written). Just for clarity: I am talking about this script:
>    http://svn.cacert.org/CAcert/SystemAdministration/webdb/mkchrootenv
> If there are volunteers for this job: please step forward!!

If I get this right a chroot environment is quite hard to maintain. Do
we need one at all? Maybe we could just run the webdb without any
virtual environment - there should be only the really necessary services
running anyhow. Or if this does not work we should go for some kind of
virtualized environment where a full distribution is running, so it can
be easily upraded with the tools of the used linux distribution...

-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards

Mario Lipinski
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