Using PPAs inside chroot ?

[linuxyogi]

Hi,

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BasicChroot

A chroot is basically a special directory on your computer which prevents applications, if run from inside that directory, from accessing files outside the directory. In many ways, a chroot is like installing another operating system inside your existing operating system.

Is it somehow possible to configure chroot to allow (read only) access to a particular folder outside chroot ?

If that is possible I will install some useful but untrusted/unofficial PPAs inside the chroot environment. But if it is impossible to configure chroot to allow access to a folder outside there is no point.

Accessing graphical applications inside the chroot

You can run graphical applications within a chroot, but you need to provide an X server for them to run in first. The easiest way to do this is to set the display of the chroot system to be identical to the root display of your system's main X server.
In other words, in the chroot shell type
export DISPLAY=:0.0

But question is will the NVIDIA proprietery driver run inside chroot ? vdpau possible ?

[sisco311]

Hi,

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BasicChroot

Is it somehow possible to configure chroot to allow (read only) access to a particular folder outside chroot ?

If that is possible I will install some useful but untrusted/unofficial PPAs inside the chroot environment. But if it is impossible to configure chroot to allow access to a folder outside there is no point.

Yes, you can mount any partition, directory or file, from outside the chroot environment the same way you mount dev, proc and sys.

sudo mount --bind /path/to/source /var/chroot/path/to/dest

If you want to make it read-only, you have to issue a second remount command:

sudo mount -o remount,ro /var/chroot/path/to/dest