---- On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 10:42:55 +0000 Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote ----
Dear Saira, Hi Andreas! On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 10:06:47AM +0000, Saira Hussain wrote: > Is the best way to do everything for the internship (or general developing) > using a VM so that it is containerised and safe? In principle there is no reason to use a VM to develop Debian packages. I'm personally running Debian on all machines I control. The only reason for me to once setup a VM was to install Debian with kernel freebds to check some bug that happened in the freebsd flavour of Debian. In short: No, a VM is not the best way - its an appropriate workaround if you have no easy access to a running Debian system. > Plus currently I am running > a different distro (ups I shouldn't mention that on a Debian mailing list!) > :) Ohoh, now you are banned from the list! ;-) Actually I run for long time Debian but my last attempt crashed the dpkg system so I decided to play around with a few other solutions. It was quite tricky to dual boot though (especially with one attempt I did with FreeBSD) :) I am always happy to have an extra machine running Debian though, that's probably my plan for this! Honestly, we are open for everybody. There were several people who are running even non-free operating systems on their machines. Its usually not very successful to ask for help on non-Debian systems here - but you are free to run your hardware with whatever you like. > Although asking about that I saw the Luibov's Vagrant which looks super > awesome! Please excuse my ignorance but what is Vagrant? Oh, Vagrant is a very interesting "open-source software product for building and maintaining portable virtual software development environments, e.g. for VirtualBox, KVM, Hyper-V, Docker containers, VMware, and AWS". So it's kinda like a VM that you can preset and that's what Luibov did on her repository to test the packages (I believe :)! correct me if wrong!) There's more info here: https://www.vagrantup.com > Thanks a lot for your help You are welcome Best SH Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de
