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.ds PROGRAM dchroot
.TH DCHROOT 1 "\*[RELEASE_DATE]" "Version \*[VERSION]" "Debian sbuild"
.SH NAME
dchroot \- enter a chroot environment
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B dchroot
.RB [ \-h \[or] \-\-help " \[or] " \-V \[or] \-\-version
.RB " \[or] " \-l \[or] \-\-list " \[or] " \-i \[or] \-\-info
.RB " \[or] " \-\-config " \[or] " \-\-location ]
.RB [ "\-\-directory=\fIdirectory\fP" ]
.RB [ \-d \[or] \-\-preserve\-environment ]
.RB [ \-q \[or] \-\-quiet " \[or] " \-v \[or] \-\-verbose ]
.RB [ "\-c \fIchroot\fP" \[or] "\-\-chroot=\fIchroot\fP"
.RB " \[or] " \-\-all ]
.RB [ COMMAND " [ " ARG1 " [ " ARG2 " [ " ARGn ]]]]
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBdchroot\fP allows the user to run a command or a login shell in a chroot
environment.  If no command is specified, a login shell will be started in the
user's home directory inside the chroot.
.PP
The command is one or more arguments which will be run in the user's default
shell using its \fI\-c\fP option.  As a result, shell code may be embedded
in this argument.  If multiple command options are used, they are concatenated
together, separated by spaces.  Users should be aware of the shell quoting
issues this presents, and should use \fBschroot\fP if necessary, which does not
have any quoting issues.
.PP
The directory the command or login shell is run in depends upon the context.
See \fI\-\-directory\fP option below for a complete description.
.PP
This version of dchroot is a compatibility wrapper around the
.BR schroot (1)
program.  It is provided for backward compatibility with the dchroot
command-line options, but schroot is recommended for future use.  See the
section \[lq]\fIIncompatibilities\fP\[rq] below for known incompatibilities
with older versions of dchroot.
.PP
If no chroot is specified, the chroot name or alias \[oq]default\[cq] will be
used as a fallback.
.SH OPTIONS
\fBdchroot\fP accepts the following options:
.SS Basic options
.TP
.BR \-h ", " \-\-help
Show help summary.
.TP
.BR \-a ", " \-\-all
Select all chroots.
.TP
.BR \-c ", " \-\-chroot=\fIchroot\fP
Specify a chroot to use.  This option may be used multiple times to specify
more than one chroot, in which case its effect is similar to \fI\-\-all\fP.
.TP
.BR \-l ", " \-\-list
List all available chroots.
.TP
.BR \-i ", " \-\-info
Print detailed information about the specified chroots.  Note that earlier
versions of dchroot did not include this option.
.TP
.BR \-p ", " \-\-path
Print location (path) of the specified chroots.
.TP
.BR \-\-config
Print configuration of the specified chroots.  This is useful for testing that
the configuration in use is the same as the configuration file.  Any comments
in the original file will be missing.  Note that earlier versions of dchroot
did not include this option.
.TP
.BR \-\-directory=\fIdirectory\fP
Change to \fIdirectory\fP inside the chroot before running the command or login
shell.  If \fIdirectory\fP is not available, dchroot will exit with an error
status.
.IP
The default behaviour is as follows (all directory paths are inside the
chroot).  Unless the \fI\-\-preserve\-environment\fP option is used to preserve
the environment, the login shell or command will run in the user's home
directory, or \fI/\fP if the home directory is not available.  When the
\fI\-\-preserve\-environment\fP option is used, it will attempt to use the
current working directory, again falling back to \fI/\fP if it is not
accessible.  If none of the directories are available, dchroot will exit with
an error status.
.TP
.BR \-d ", " \-\-preserve\-environment
Preserve the user's environment inside the chroot environment.  The default is
to use a clean environment; this option copies the entire user environment and
sets it in the session.
.TP
.BR \-q ", " \-\-quiet
Print only essential messages.
.TP
.BR \-v ", " \-\-verbose
Print all messages.  Note that earlier versions of dchroot did not include this
option.
.TP
.BR \-V ", " \-\-version
Print version information.
.PP
Note that earlier versions of dchroot did not provide long options.
.SH INCOMPATIBILITIES
.SS Debian dchroot prior to version 0.99.0
.IP \[bu]
Log messages are worded and formatted differently.
.IP \[bu]
.BR su (1)
is no longer used to run commands in the chroot; this is done by dchroot
internally.  This change may cause subtle differences.  If you find an
incompatibility, please report it so it may be corrected.
.IP \[bu]
dchroot provides a restricted subset of the functionality implemented by
\fBschroot\fP, but is still schroot underneath.  Thus dchroot is still subject
to schroot security checking, including PAM authentication and authorisation,
and session management, for example, and hence may behave slightly differently
to older dchroot versions in some circumstances.
.SS Debian dchroot prior to version 1.5.1
.IP \[bu]
This version of dchroot uses \fIschroot.conf\fP to store the configuration for
available chroots, rather than the \fIdchroot.conf\fP file used historically.
dchroot supported automatic migration of \fIdchroot.conf\fP to the
\fIschroot.conf\fP keyfile format with its \fI\-\-config\fP option from
versions 0.2.2 to 1.5.0; support for the old format is now no longer available.
.SS DSA dchroot
Machines run by the Debian System Administrators for the Debian Project have a
\fBdchroot-dsa\fP package which provides an alternate dchroot implementation.
.IP \[bu]
All the above incompatibilities apply.
.IP \[bu]
This version of dchroot has incompatible command-line options, and while some
of those options are supported or have equivalent options by a different name,
the \fI\-c\fP option is not required to specify a chroot, and this version of
dchroot cannot implement this behaviour in a backward-compatible manner
(because if \fI\-c\fP is omitted, the default chroot is used).  DSA dchroot
uses the first non-option as the chroot to use, only allowing one chroot to be
used at once.
.SH DIRECTORY FALLBACKS
.PP
dchroot will select an appropriate directory to use within the chroot based
upon whether the \fI\-\-directory\fP or \fI\-\-preserve\-environment\fP options
are used.  When explicitly specifying a directory, only one directory will be
used for safety and consistency, while for a login shell or command several
possibilities may be tried.  Note that due to multiple fallbacks being
considered for commands, it is dangerous to run commands using dchroot; use
schroot instead.  The following subsections list the fallback sequence for each
case.  CWD is the current working directory, DIR is the directory specified
with \fI\-\-directory\fP.
.SS Login shell or command
.TS
box;
l|lw(4i).
Transition
(Host \[->] Chroot)	Comment
_
CWD \[->] passwd pw_dir	T{
Normal behaviour (if \-\-directory and \fI\-\-preserve\-environment\fP are not
used)
T}
CWD \[->] /	T{
If passwd pw_dir is nonexistent
T}
\fBFAIL\fP	T{
If / is nonexistent
T}
.TE
.SS \-\-preserve\-environment used
.TS
box;
l|lw(4i).
Transition
(Host \[->] Chroot)	Comment
_
CWD \[->] CWD	T{
Normal behaviour (if \fI\-\-preserve\-environment\fP used)
T}
CWD \[->] /	T{
If CWD is nonexistent
T}
\fBFAIL\fP	T{
If / is nonexistent
T}
.TE
.SS \-\-directory used
.TS
box;
l|lw(4i).
Transition
(Host \[->] Chroot)	Comment
_
CWD \[->] DIR	Normal behaviour
\fBFAIL\fP	If DIR is nonexistent
.TE
.PP
No fallbacks should exist under any circumstances.
.SS Debugging
.PP
Note that \fI\-\-debug=notice\fP will show the internal fallback list computed
for the session.
.SH EXAMPLES
.EX
$ \f[CB]dchroot \-l\fP\[CR]
Available chroots: sarge [default], sid

$ \f[CB]dchroot \-p sid\fP\[CR]
/srv/chroot/sid

$ \f[CB]dchroot \-q \-c sid \-\- uname \-smr\fP\[CR]
Linux 2.6.16.17 ppc
$ \f[CB]dchroot \-q \-c sid \-\- "uname \-smr"\fP\[CR]
Linux 2.6.16.17 ppc

$ \f[CB]dchroot -q -c sid "ls -1 / | tac | head -n 4"\fP\[CR]
var
usr
tmp
sys

$ \f[CB]dchroot \-c sid\fP\[CR]
I: [sid chroot] Running login shell: \[lq]/bin/bash\[rq]
$ 
.EE
.LP
Use \fI\-\-\fP to allow options beginning with \[oq]\-\[cq] or \[oq]\-\-\[cq]
in the command to run in the chroot.  This prevents them being interpreted as
options for dchroot itself.  Note that the top line was echoed to standard
error, and the remaining lines to standard output.  This is intentional, so
that program output from commands run in the chroot may be piped and redirected
as required; the data will be the same as if the command was run directly on
the host system.
.SH TROUBLESHOOTING
If something is not working, and it's not clear from the error messages what is
wrong, try using the \fB\-\-debug=\fP\fIlevel\fP option to turn on debugging
messages.  This gives a great deal more information.  Valid debug levels are
\[oq]none\[cq], and \[oq]notice\[cq], \[oq]info\[cq], \[oq]warning\[cq] and
\[oq]critical\[cq] in order of increasing severity.  The lower the severity
level, the more output.
.PP
If you are still having trouble, the developers may be contacted on the mailing
list:
.br
\f[CR]Debian\ buildd-tools\ Developers
.br
<buildd-tools-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>\fP
.SH BUGS
On the \fBmips\fP and \fBmipsel\fP architectures, Linux kernels up to and
including at least version 2.6.17 have broken
.BR personality (2)
support, which results in a failure to set the personality.  This will be seen
as an \[lq]Operation not permitted\[rq] (EPERM) error.  To work around this
problem, set \f[CI]personality\fP to \[oq]undefined\[cq], or upgrade to a more
recent kernel.
.SH FILES
.TP
\f[BI]\*[SCHROOT_CONF]\fP
The system-wide \fBschroot\fP definition file.  This file must be owned by the
root user, and not be writable by other.
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.PP
This implementation of dchroot uses the same command-line options as the
original \fBdchroot\fP by David Kimdon \f[CR]<dwhedon@debian.org>\fP, but is an
independent implementation.
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.SH SEE ALSO
.BR schroot (1),
.BR sbuild (1),
.BR chroot (2),
.BR schroot-setup (5),
.BR schroot.conf (5).
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