Bug 1399637

Summary:	[RFE] please allow users to specify path to system root directory
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jakub Filak <jfilak>
Component:	elfutils	Assignee:	Mark Wielaard <mjw>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Jakub Filak 2016-11-29 13:31:18 UTC

Description of problem:
I need to deliver elfutils in a container image because I want to run eu-stack on Atomic. Atomic is immutable and adding new packages is not trivial.

I want to be able to run eu-stack in a non-system root (own mount namespace - a container) on core dump files store in the same root but generated by programs running in the system root (the default mount namespace - a host). The system root file system will be available to eu-stack in the /host path.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
elfutils-0.167-2.fc26.x86_64

Additional info:
https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/elfutils-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org/message/C6P5DL6CTELZ74ECHHSZIQVUGU75BAWU/

Comment 2 Aaron Merey 2025-05-30 14:29:22 UTC

eu-stack now supports this with its command line option --sysroot