[baker-baker] New Approach to Sandbox: the Oven

[Mika Pesu]

T. Onoma wrote:

>Well, now I've done it! ;)
>
>I've gone and created the beginnings of distribution generator. What I 
>determined was that to get a good sandbox, we really needed a whole special 
>evironment for building software -- a mini distro. The idea hit me when 
>studying rubyx some more.
>
>So first, you build this base "oven" system using tools preinstalled on your 
>OS, then all other software is built within this oven mini-system. This 
>facilitates the two modes of operation: 1) soure pkg management for present 
>system and 2) distribution management.
>
>When in mode #1, the libraries of the current system will be mount --bind into 
>the "oven" system and use environment variables to take precedence over the 
>libs in the oven. But the oven includes everything needed for building the 
>software: bash, gcc, binutils, etc. And thus does not need to depend on the 
>main system for these tools. A real chroot env is then possible.
>
>There may be some snags to overcome with this model, but I hope not too many. 
>And that this will work out really well.
>
>Thoughts?
>
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>

congrats, sounds good...

ps.sorry i haven't been really active member for past few weeks, i had 
exams and i catched nasty fever week ago.