chroots for testing other OS versions (was: buildbot errors)

Daniel J. Luke dluke at geeklair.net
Fri Nov 18 13:27:33 PST 2011


On Nov 18, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> Indeed.  We actually keep things pretty compatible at the syscall level from release to release, but I agree that at the minimum, the major version number should match for the host.   What is the current status of trace mode, anyway?  Is it just used to verify destroots, or is it used for more than that?

The current status is that no one uses it and it's probably bit-rotting :-\

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