Hi *, I tried to test o3-build last week and hit several problems (other postings will follow).
The first thing that kind of surprised me is how it is distributed. It is offered as an iso-download. I think this is rather suboptimal, and tar.gz/bz2 would be better. For one reason, you can really only use it when you use loopback mount - building from a real optical drive surely is not recommended or advisable. Another problem that arose is that you need to be root to use it as iso. * o3build hardwires the /o3 location - it doesn't work when used from another location, and regular users mustn't mount to a random location, let alone creating files or directories in / While I hope this limitation will sometime vanish, the other problems still stay true. * loopback mount is only allowed for root in most default configs * many configurations disallow execution of files from a user-mountable device So to use o3-build, one has to extract it. Copying from a tarball or using some tools like mc have the problems, that the permissions are often not set correctly (i.e. all files without executable flag) and that causes extra work. Another reason why I'd like to see seperate tarballs is that the iso does not only contain the core build-environment (and that for two Windows as well as Linux), but as well optional things like * OOo sources * "installed" OOo and SDK * jdk * ant that could be easily provided as seperate downloads and just extracted along the core. (I doubt that these were specially prepared for o3-build) So: Please provide seperate tarballs instead of an iso. ciao Christian -- NP: Both - Simple Exercice --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
