[crossfire] Is the deposit bug on the bank PYò0script ever going to get fixed?

[Sebastian Andersson]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 03:04:38AM +0000, Robert Brockway wrote:
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      Yes LD_PRELOAD will do this.  It is nice to get out of a tight spot but a 
     
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      poor long term solution (except in the example below :)
     
     
On Debian, the really nice debootstrap utility can be used for this.
It will download and setup a filesystem suitable for chroot:ing from
any debian distribution. Ie:
debootstrap sarge ./chroot-dir 
     
     ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/debian/
     
     

One needs root privs to use it or one can use fakechroot. fakechroot's
manpage describes how to use it together with debootstrap for these
things.

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      I've come to the conclusion the best method is to package the s/w with 
     
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      binary libraries that are guaranteed to work with the s/w.  These are the 
     
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      fallback libs.
     
     
It a bit of a problem for libraries that have a lot of external files
that it depends on though (like python's /usr/lib/python*/ files),
the distribution then starts to be really large and one often has to
configure/change and rebuild those libraries so they look for their
files in the right place.

/Sebastian
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