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Friday, May 4 2012
By Rémi Duraffort on Friday, May 4 2012, 23:23 - PRoot
In my previous article, I showed a way to setup and jump into a root file system in order to test a software in this environment.
Using PRoot, such task looks really easy and does not require any privileges. We will now finish this setup in order to build and test VLC media player in this new root file system.
Monday, April 16 2012
By Rémi Duraffort on Monday, April 16 2012, 09:43 - PRoot
A good practice for software developer is to provide a test suite while developing a software. When developing for Linux, it's also a good practice to compile the software and run the test suite on many distributions like Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, ArchLinux, Centos, Slackware and for both i386 and x86_64.
Usually, softwares are compiled and tested on only one distribution because setting up the right environment is long and painful. Most of the time root privileges are also required to setup such environment.
In this article and the following one, I will show that using PRoot, such testing is quite handy and can be done by any users.
Monday, April 9 2012
By Rémi Duraffort on Monday, April 9 2012, 17:01 - PRoot
It's been a long time since my last post on thit blog. To start again in a good shape I will seize the opportunity of a new version of PRoot to present this open source software in a cycle of articles.