On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 07:04:10PM +0200, Glenn Moeller-Holst wrote:
> At 22:17 +0200 29/05/11, Lukas-David Gorris wrote:
> >Hello,
> ...
> >Not everybody will like the idea of using chroot. Personally I have been
> >using org.openembedded.dev based environment for a long time and never
> >needed it.
> ...
> >Best,
> >Lukas
> >
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> Hi Lukas
> 
> If want to use chroot for security reasons, you ought to look at:

the purpose of shr-chroot is to provide verified and shared environment
for people who were building SHR and were experiencing build issues
with OE which were caused by their bleeding/obsolete version of
fedora/debian/ubuntu/gentoo/abc/xyz/your/favourite distro

it allows us to reproduce build issue in most cases and then fix it in
OE or update chroot env, but I never had issues in my gentoo
installation which couldn't be solved in OE if someone knows about it
and can reproduce it.

So once again: it's not mandatory step to build SHR, if you have sane
host installation and you can debug/fix issues nobody except you can see
then use your distribution

More information about why I started to use chroot myself (long before
publishing it as shr-chroot) here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org/msg03765.html

Xen/LXC/VirtualBox/whatever is of course also fine for such minimal
system for OE builds, but main criteriums for me were
performance, maintainability, easy to use and chroot won (at least for
me) and since then many people asked me to share it, first as tarballed
snapshosts, then integrating setup-shr-chroot/update-shr-chroot to our 
Makefile..

Cheers,

-- 
Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: martin.ja...@gmail.com

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