After reading through 24 pages of Debian chroot posts.., just a summary and some questions / various coherent and incoherent stuff

"In-maemo" packages/editings:

* 'Debbie script'/Hilda etc that executes command in chroot (and mounts if needed), no X session needed, and views in maemo Xserver
* Methods for starting full debian X session, like /etc/init.d/chroot-start-xephyr-xsession is a way to do

* Application .desktop files that runs the debbie/chroot script for easy access, using matchbox as WM (maemo's)
* Maybe matchbox movable windows hack & sudo tricks

- My installer can download and dpkg -i stuff that's needed to support this through easy configuration

Ways of storing installation image:
* ext2/ext3 image files
* tar zxf onto a partition (johnx's beta3)

I'm personally not fond of image files but I guess they're good enough when there's no partitioner (which we do have in NIT-Debian).
Or for scenarios where we have a "easy debian" deb (that would bootstrap the system and set default settings?) - but I haven't seen "bootable" ext2/3 images?

X-server possibilities:

Straight to OS2008 X display.. (chroot run)
Xephyr (ability to have in a Maemo WM window, both fullscreen and not?)
VNC method (slow..?)
Xserver-omap on another virtual console (enabling switch between Maemo and Debian in both user interfaces through chvt?)
- does this have performance penalty?
- advantages of this would be similar scripts for boot and chroot for starting X session? (see http://trac.tspre.org/projects/nit-d...it.d/x-session).
- I do all the GTKSTYLUS etc tricks in Xsession instead, but I guess that also means that the goal is a X session, not just a debian app with target on Maemo X display..


Maemo-Debian interaction, /etc/group, /etc/users..:

Just viewing differences of those between maemo and my setup..
for the sake of the tablet-user (which i have a package creating), there's nothing saying that we can't have the useradd command
set a specific UID/GID (29999/29999) for the user when adding. Is there any other technical reason why they should be shared?

DBUS communication? What issues are there with communicating with in-Maemo hald/dbus from Debian?

Maemo-Debian UI interaction - scripts that "make life easier" when in chroot such as switch back to OS2008, etc.
I guess it would be possible to detect if we booted or we chrooted, either through environment variables or other things,
so we could have a package adding different tricks for UI interaction with Maemo, that just doesn't
initialize in booted Debian (and maybe some that doesnt activate in chrooted Debian either).

Besides some of the observations given in this, I see no reason whatsoever that chroot and boot version can't be two sides of the same thing
- and maybe even that the installer sets up chroot initially but user can also choose to dual-boot and boot into the same Debian session.


In any case, it could be interesting to combine the creativity of the chroot people and the booting people to give a better user experience, instead
of two groups working on exact same thing..