Ubuntu Manpage: schroot-setup - schroot chroot setup scripts

NAME

       schroot-setup - schroot chroot setup scripts

DESCRIPTION

       schroot  uses  scripts  to set up and then clean up the chroot environment.  The directory
       /etc/schroot/setup.d contains scripts run when a chroot is created and destroyed.  Several
       environment  variables  are  set  while  the  scripts  are  being  run, which allows their
       behaviour to be customised, depending upon, for example, the type of chroot in use.

       The scripts are run in name order, like those run by init(8), by using the same  style  of
       execution as run-parts(8).

       The setup scripts are all invoked with two options:

       1      The action to perform.

              When  a  session  is  first started, the chroot is set up by running the scripts in
              /etc/schroot/setup.d with the ‘setup-start’ option.  When the session is ended, the
              scripts  in  /etc/schroot/setup.d  are  run  in reverse order with the ‘setup-stop’
              option.

       2      The chroot status.

              This is either ‘ok’ if there are no problems, or ‘fail’ if  something  went  wrong.
              For example, particular actions may be skipped on failure.

       Note  that  the  scripts  should  be  idempotent.   They  must  be  idempotent  during the
       ‘setup-stop’ phase, because they may be run more than once, for example on failure.

ENVIRONMENT

General variables
AUTH_USER
The username of the user the command in the chroot will run as.

CHROOT_NAME
The chroot name. Note that this is the name of the original chroot before session
creation; you probably want SESSION_ID.

LIBEXEC_DIR
The directory under which helper programs are located.

MOUNT_DIR
The directory under which non-filesystem chroots are mounted (e.g. block devices
and LVM snapshots).

PID The process ID of the schroot process.

PLATFORM
The operating system platform schroot is running upon. This may be used to
introduce platform-specific behaviour into the setup scripts where required. Note
that the HOST variables are probably what are required. In the context of schroot,
the platform is the supported configuration and behaviour for a given architecture,
and may be identical between different architectures.

SESSION_ID
The session identifier.

VERBOSE
Set to ‘quiet’ if only error messages should be printed, ‘normal’ if other messages
may be printed as well, and ‘verbose’ if all messages may be printed. Previously
called AUTH_VERBOSITY.

CHROOT_SESSION_CREATE
Set to ‘true’ if a session will be created, otherwise ‘false’.

CHROOT_SESSION_CLONE
Set to ‘true’ if a session will be cloned, otherwise ‘false’.

CHROOT_SESSION_PURGE
Set to ‘true’ if a session will be purged, otherwise ‘false’.

CHROOT_SESSION_SOURCE
Set to ‘true’ if a session will be created from a source chroot, otherwise ‘false’.

CHROOT_TYPE
The type of the chroot. This is useful for restricting a setup task to particular
types of chroot (e.g. only block devices or LVM snapshots).

CHROOT_NAME
The name of the chroot. This is useful for restricting a setup task to a
particular chroot, or set of chroots.

CHROOT_ALIAS
The name of the alias used to select the chroot. This is useful for specialising a
setup task based upon one of its alternative alias names, or the default chroot
name. For example, it could be used to specify additional sources in
/etc/apt/sources.list, such as a stable-security alias for a stable chroot, or an
experimental alias for an unstable chroot.

CHROOT_DESCRIPTION
The description of the chroot.

CHROOT_MOUNT_LOCATION
The location to mount the chroot. It is used for mount point creation and
mounting.

CHROOT_LOCATION
The location of the chroot inside the mount point. This is to allow multiple
chroots on a single filesystem. Set for all mountable chroot types.

CHROOT_PATH
The absolute path to the chroot. This is typically CHROOT_MOUNT_LOCATION and
CHROOT_LOCATION concatenated together. This is the path which should be used to
access the chroots.

Plain and directory chroot variables
These chroot types use only general variables.

File variables
CHROOT_FILE
The file containing the chroot files.

CHROOT_FILE_REPACK
Set to ‘true’ to repack the chroot into an archive file on ending a session,
otherwise ‘false’.

Mountable chroot variables
These variables are only set for directly mountable chroot types.

CHROOT_MOUNT_DEVICE
The device to mount containing the chroot.

CHROOT_MOUNT_OPTIONS
Options to pass to mount(8).

CHROOT_LOCATION
The location of the chroot inside the mount point. This allows the existence of
multiple chroots on a single filesystem.

Filesystem union variables
CHROOT_UNION_TYPE
Union filesystem type.

CHROOT_UNION_MOUNT_OPTIONS
Union filesystem mount options.

CHROOT_UNION_OVERLAY_DIRECTORY
Union filesystem overlay directory (writable).

CHROOT_UNION_UNDERLAY_DIRECTORY
Union filesystem underlay directory (read-only).

Block device variables
CHROOT_DEVICE
The device containing the chroot root filesystem. This is usually, but not
necessarily, the device which will be mounted. For example, for a LVM snapshot
this will be the original logical volume.

LVM snapshot variables
CHROOT_LVM_SNAPSHOT_NAME
Snapshot name to pass to lvcreate(8).

CHROOT_LVM_SNAPSHOT_DEVICE
The name of the LVM snapshot device.

CHROOT_LVM_SNAPSHOT_OPTIONS
Options to pass to lvcreate(8).

Custom variables
Custom keys set in schroot.conf will be uppercased and set in the environment as described
in schroot.conf(5).

FILES

Setup script configuration
The directory /etc/schroot/default contains the default settings used by setup scripts.

config Main configuration file read by setup scripts. The format of this file is
described in schroot-script-config(5). This is the default value for the
script-config key. Note that this was formerly named /etc/schroot/script-defaults.
The following files are referenced by default:

copyfiles
A list of files to copy into the chroot from the host system. Note that this was
formerly named /etc/schroot/copyfiles-defaults.

fstab A file in the format described in fstab(5), used to mount filesystems inside the
chroot. The mount location is relative to the root of the chroot. Note that this
was formerly named /etc/schroot/mount-defaults.

nssdatabases
System databases (as described in /etc/nsswitch.conf on GNU/Linux systems) to copy
into the chroot from the host. Note that this was formerly named
/etc/schroot/nssdatabases-defaults.

Setup scripts
The directory /etc/schroot/setup.d contains the chroot setup scripts.

00check
Print debugging diagnostics and perform basic sanity checking.

05file Unpack, clean up, and repack file-based chroots.

05fsunion
Create and remove union filesystems.

05lvm Create and remove LVM snapshots.

10mount
Mount and unmount filesystems.

15binfmt
Sets up the QEMU user emulator using binfmt-support. This permits a chroot for a
different CPU architecture to be used transparently, providing an alternative to
cross-compiling or whole-machine emulation.

15killprocs
Kill processes still running inside the chroot when ending a session, which would
prevent unmounting of filesystems and cleanup of any other resources.

20copyfiles
Copy files from the host system into the chroot. Configure networking by copying
hosts and resolv.conf, for example.

20nssdatabases
Configure system databases by copying passwd, shadow, group etc. into the chroot.

50chrootname
Set the chroot name (/etc/debian_chroot) in the chroot. This may be used by the
shell prompt to display the current chroot.

AUTHORS

       Roger Leigh.

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