[Pkg-libvirt-discuss] libguestfs & Debian, an idea

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 11:45:32AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> How about the libguestfs package depends on each of the packages used
> inside the vm/appliance, then builds the vm on first install and updates
> the vm via file triggers whenever the packages outside the vm change?
> This means it doesn't need to access the network at build time or at
> install time and also gives free updates of the vm. This is kinda
> similar to how the initramfs is built on Debian.

Could do this, but building the appliance from debs is quite slow
(3-10 minutes), and really once you've built it you should test it
(1-2 hours).  When we build the Fedora package, we do all this work
once on the builders, and can then be fairly certain that what we're
about to ship to end users will actually work.

What's the problem with running debirf on the Debian builders anyway?
It shouldn't need any special permissions or network access.

Rich.

-- 
Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines.  Supports shell scripting,
bindings from many languages.  http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/
See what it can do: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/recipes.html