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Bootstrapping Alpine Linux without root

Creating a chroot in Linux is pretty easy: put a rootfs in a folder and run the sudo chroot /my/folder command. But what if you don't want to use superuser privileges for this? This is not super simple to fix, not only does the chroot command itself require root permissions but the steps for creating the rootfs in the first place and mounting the required filesystems like /proc and /sys require root as well. In pmbootstrap the process for creating an installable image for a phone requires settin...

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