On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 9:10 PM, James Westby <[email protected]> wrote: > Not that it is necessarily a terrible idea, but isn't there something that > can be done that doesn't require running essentially a whole new machine > to hack on Launchpad?
I'm sure it is possible, given enough resources. Ubuntu One has something along those lines: they start a bunch of services (Postgres most notably) as an unpriviledged user, running on an unpriviledged port. The same could be done for Launchpad. Roughly, off the top of my head, Apache and Postgres are the system-wide services that are touched by rocketfuel-setup. The following could be done to work around it: - Generating an Apache configuration file, binding to a random unpriviledged and unused port - Creating a new Postgres cluster on a user directory, or even inside the build directory, also binding to a random unpriviledged and unused port - Starting up Postgres and Apache as the current user ... - Profit?! I'm sure someone from the Ubuntu One team could comment on this. Their approach seems very simple and cowboy-ish, but in practice works nicely. The only thing I didn't quite swallow was the fact they do all this setup from scratch every time you run 'make start', so it takes a little bit longer than what I find acceptable. -- Sidnei _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
