On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:59:47 -0600 Douglas McClendon dmc.fedora@filteredperception.org wrote:
I'll take that 12 hours over the 1hr for livecd-creator any day of the week, knowing that I'm not running about 1000 rpm post install scripts under the limited protection of a chroot with selinux disabled. Combined with the comfort of knowing that if I do a compose on a different piece of hardware, that those 1000 scripts will have no chance to sneakily incur any host build dependencies based on their access to a random /proc (as opposed to the consistency of always identical qemu /proc).
You may call 12 hours for a compose unusably slow. I don't. And computers and software get improved all the time, so maybe in 3 years, that 12 hours will just become "order a pizza and wait for the results".
Eh, if we really wanted to do this, we'd just re-kickstart the builder each time we wanted to do a build, and then just do the build in the freshly kickstart install, removing it when done.