[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Scratchbox 1.x with scirocco/mistral

[From: Kalle Vahlman]

2006/11/29, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila at guru.guru-group.fi>:
> "Kalle Vahlman" <kalle.vahlman at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > 2006/11/29, Kalle Vahlman <kalle.vahlman at gmail.com>:
> >> 2006/11/28, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila at guru.guru-group.fi>:
> >> > my wishlist to scratchbox developers:
> >> >
> >> > 1) make this work (or is there something I did wrong ?) (*)
> >> > 2) update subversion to at least 1.3 so that svn log --limit=n works.
> >>
> >> FWIW, you can install self-compiled tools under /host_usr (which is
> >> visible in all targets) and add /host_usr/bin to your PATH.
>
> Yes...but I want to keep the changes in /scratchbox/ directory
> tree as bare minimum... The requirement (without any hacking) to
> add group "sbox" to /etc/groups is disturbing enough ;)

Well, technically you could say it's the root dir you are modifying ;)

But more seriously, /host_usr/ is specifically meant for the user,
that's why it resides in the /scratchbox/users/<user> tree. And unless
you are building your stuff in /tmp, you are already working inside
/scratchbox/users as your home lives there, so it really isn't that
radical.

> (I'd like to just tar my /scratchbox and move to other machine,
>  extract it there and start using... but I understand there is
>  no point spending expensive development time doing that)

No, and even if you do, having stuff in /host_usr isn't going to make
a difference, as it will be copied along the other user-specific stuff
AFAICT.

-- 
Kalle Vahlman, zuh at iki.fi
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