RPM 4.15 Released With Experimental Rootless Chroot Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: RPM 4.15 Released With Experimental Rootless Chroot Support

RPM 4.15 is officially out this week as the newest version of the RPM Package Manager most often associated with Red Hat / Fedora systems...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RPM-4.15-Released

[coder]

Which kernel version enabled rootless chroot?

[RahulSundaram]

Which kernel version enabled rootless chroot?

Linux 3.8 is when namespace support became quite mature. It is part of what makes containers feasible

[coder]

Linux 3.8 is when namespace support became quite mature. It is part of what makes containers feasible

Thanks!

[ms178]

I also find the added useage of multiple CPUs quite important, as I build the rpm-pkg target of the Kernel and it was only using a single CPU up until now.

[uid313]

Why is this chroot support good and how can it be useful?
Does any other package manager support that, such as APT?

[coder]

Why is this chroot support good and how can it be useful?

It gives you the ability to build a package with a completely controlled and reproducible environment, rather than being subject to whatever mix of packages & versions happen to be installed on the host.

Learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroot

The non-root chroot is really nice, since that should let users with normal credentials build packages in this way.

[tildearrow]

What? How does root-less chroot work?
Does it put you under a fake "root" account or what?