zongou / prootie

Supercharges your PRoot experience.

prootie

Supercharges your PRoot experience.

prootie VS proot-distro

Login 40x faster

Command	Mean [s]	Min [s]	Max [s]	Relative
proot-distro login alpine -- pwd	1.894 ± 0.070	1.739	2.004	42.71 ± 11.66
./prootie.sh login distros/alpine -- pwd	0.301 ± 0.022	0.270	0.337	6.79 ± 1.90
./prootie login distros/alpine -- pwd	0.044 ± 0.012	0.028	0.080	1.00

Comparison:

Item	prootie	proot-distro
written language	c	bash
install custom rootfs archive	easy	hard
customizable rootfs location	yes	no
installing while downloading	yes	no
clone rootfs	yes	no
output standard rootfs archive	yes	no
handling stdin, stdout and stderr	yes	no
user-friendly	only 3 commands	10 commands
supported platforms	Android, Linux	Android

Quick start

Compile from source

cc prootie.c -o prootie

Install rootfs

version=3.20.1
rootfs=./alpine

arch=$(uname -m)
version_main=$(echo "${version}" | grep -Eo "^[0-9]\.[0-9]+")
archive=alpine-minirootfs-${version}-${arch}.tar.gz
rootfs_url=https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v${version_main}/releases/${arch}/${archive}

curl -Lk "${rootfs_url}" | gzip -d | ./prootie -v install "${rootfs}"

Login rootfs

prootie login alpine

Archive rootfs

prootie archive alpine | gzip > alpine.tar.gz

Clone rootfs

prootie archive alpine | prootie install alpine2

Tested distros

distro	status	notes
almalinux (9)	OK
alt (p11)	OK
alpine (3.20)	OK
amazonlinux	OK
archlinux	OK
debian (bookworm)	OK
voidlinux (musl)	OK	vi /etc/passwd to change login shell to bash
fedora (40)	OK
ubuntu (noble)	OK	touch /root/.hushlogin
busybox (1.36.1)	OK
gentoo (openrc)	OK
kali	OK
rockylinux (9)	OK
openwrt (23.05)	OK

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