what kind of virtual machine file is it? (vmware? virtualbox? xen-based?)
what is 'huge' ? 200MB? 400MB? 700MB? 2GB?
no way to slim it down?
Michael De Groote
ICT-coordinator Sint-Pietersschool Korbeek-Lo
ICT-support Sancta Maria Basisschool Leuven
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Juan Jose Pablos <jua...@apertus.es> wrote:
> >>From the problems that I've seen on the list, the main issues seem to be
> related to the tool-chain and that the
> > build system interacts with the host system that everything is being
> built on.
>
> Having a virtual machine that people can play with it allows them it
> modify and fix wherever they feel and contribute to the main distribution.
>
> I have a virtual machine with debian etch that compiles just fine. My
> only trouble would be where to host it it is a huge file.
>
> >
> > Another potential solution is to take some of the information from
> www.linuxfromscratch.org and
> > buildroot.uclibc.org and fix the current scripts to better isolate the
> build from the host system.
> >
> nice to know. having a virtual machine does not stop it to happend.
>
> > My gut feeling at this moment is that the basic idea of the build script
> that is currently used is the correct
> > way to go. However, some changes to fix the "tool-chain problem" are
> necessary. How to fix it has been solved
> > by buildroot and linuxfromscratch.
> >
>
> my gut feeling is that making a virtual machine allows more people to
> build their own version of unattended without knowing the underline
> system so it would be rather strange that with that lack of knowledge
> they will contribute it back ( I hope that it did not sound too sceptic)
>
>
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