Hi John, On 03/19/2013 11:06 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Here at Dell we need to integrate locally generated OpenSUSE builds into our > smoketest framework. We need to do this in such a way that internet > connectivity is not required to build the ISO. I am still noodling over how > we can also utilize the good work you are doing within the OBS framework and > with KIWI. This later objective is something we want to do, but at a > slightly lower priority than creating the ability to build ISOs without need > for external networked resources. > > Some of our developers live and work from remote places where the internet > bandwidth is even more restrictive than it is from within Dell campuses.
Perfectly understandable. With the same Kiwi config you can just swap the repositories URL with local DVDs, RPMs caches or mirrors, so there's no need to rely on external networked resources. > I will start work on the ./dev build process and will keep you updated on our > progress. I'm curious how this process works and differs from using Kiwi - can you please elaborate? > Additionally, and after some cogitation I have come to the decision to create > our own OBS server and to mirror (pull down) the work you are doing to run on > that system. That way we can possibly keep in lock-step with your team and > meet our internal needs. Does this make sense from your perspective? Yes that makes sense and it's great that you're planning to have an internal OBS instance. Let us know if there's anything we can help with. Thanks, James T. _______________________________________________ Crowbar mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/crowbar For more information: http://crowbar.github.com/
