Put other releases in a chroot (was Re: Current situation of amarok, and of latex tools)

[Andrew Sayers]

Regressions occur in Ubuntu releases.  As mentioned elsewhere, this is 
to be expected, and may be for the best.  But if you've spent 6 months 
getting Intrepid just how you like it, starting over again with Jaunty 
can be a pain.

So how about we offer the user the opportunity to `cp -l /bin /etc /usr 
/lib* /sbin /usr /var /chroots/jaunty` when they upgrade to Karmic? 
Then with a bit of shell trickery, they can run their old version of 
amarok just by running "jaunty amarok".  It wouldn't take up that much 
space on a modern hard drive, especially using hard links, and would 
solve a lot of these headaches.

Similarly, how about we offer the user the opportunity to `debootstrap 
jaunty /chroots/intrepid --include=ubuntu-desktop` if they install 
Karmic from scratch?  That gives new users similar access to Jaunty.

Finally, how about upgrading debootstrap in Jaunty when Karmic is 
released, so that people can install it in a chroot, and try before they 
buy?

	- Andrew