[Mageia-dev] Will this work for a build system?

Mon Sep 27 12:47:48 CEST 2010

Le lundi 27 septembre 2010 à 11:12 +0200, Frank Loewe a écrit :
+> >What about virtualization?
+> >
+> >Maybe we could set-up some kind of cluster of remote and dedicated
+> vm's as a unique build system. Could be a good workaround over
+> security and integrity issues, 'cause we are using >a "single" build
+> system.
+> 
+> 
+> That is the thing SuSE OBS does. The System which builds the package
+> is a VM on a XEN Host, which is generated automatically from a defined
+> Image, every time and for every package.
+> So it is clear, that the package is built on a clean system with the
+> right OS and Patch level.
+
+That's also what we do, except our system is a little bit older, and so
+use chroot. But we were planning to change this on mandriva ( but no one
+did ).
+
+There is however something to not forget, that's the way we target more
+exotic architecture. Ie, arm, mips, etc. Arnaud Patard explained to me
+that nothing replace compilation on real system as subtle bug can be
+introduced by emulator or cross compilation. 
+
+So the system must be flexible enough to not force virtualisation or
+anything.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+