Testing the nightly builds

[Amit Saha]

Hello all:

I have been trying to test a custom spin (built upon Live Desktop)
built using the rawhide repository and though the ISO builds fine, I
am really not able to test it properly. Excuse me for sounding a
little fuzzy.

I have tried using VirtualBox and it goes as far as giving me the
desktop environment, but its painfully slow, even with 2G of (virtual)
RAM, and a boot from USB stops somewhere along the way.

I understand its not tested at all, but was just wondering how to do
even a sanity testing of my spin.  Any ideas/thoughts appreciated.

Or, is it just me doing something wrong?

Thanks!
-Amit
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[Bruno Wolff III]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 19:14:37 +1000,
  Amit Saha <droidery(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  
>  I have tried using VirtualBox and it goes as far as giving me the
>  desktop environment, but its painfully slow, even with 2G of (virtual)
>  RAM, and a boot from USB stops somewhere along the way. 
This is potentially a kernel issue.

>  I understand its not tested at all, but was just wondering how to do
>  even a sanity testing of my spin.  Any ideas/thoughts appreciated. 
You could do sanity testing of your spin using F15. Use livecd-creator
to build the spin against F15 and test it.

[Amit Saha]

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno(a)wolff.to&gt; wrote:
>  On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 19:14:37 +1000,
>   Amit Saha <droidery(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
> >
> > I have tried using VirtualBox and it goes as far as giving me the
> > desktop environment, but its painfully slow, even with 2G of (virtual)
> > RAM, and a boot from USB stops somewhere along the way.
>
>  This is potentially a kernel issue. 
Hmm. I see.

> > I understand its not tested at all, but was just wondering how to do
> > even a sanity testing of my spin.  Any ideas/thoughts appreciated.
>
>  You could do sanity testing of your spin using F15. Use livecd-creator
>  to build the spin against F15 and test it. 
That's definitely something which I considered, but probably not
possible in my case. I recently pushed some changes to the
comps-f16-xml.in file, which I need to use in my kickstart file. Is
there any way I could use this fille, but use the Fedora repository
and not the rawhide repo?

Thanks Bruno!
-Amit
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http://echorand.me

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 08:46:32 +1000,
  Amit Saha <droidery(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  
>  That's definitely something which I considered, but probably not
>  possible in my case. I recently pushed some changes to the
>  comps-f16-xml.in file, which I need to use in my kickstart file. Is
>  there any way I could use this fille, but use the Fedora repository
>  and not the rawhide repo? 
You can use createrepo to build a repo from rpm files that you want
to have available and then add an entry for that repo in your kickstart
file to use it.

[Amit Saha]

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno(a)wolff.to&gt; wrote:
>  On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 08:46:32 +1000,
>   Amit Saha <droidery(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
> >
> > That's definitely something which I considered, but probably not
> > possible in my case. I recently pushed some changes to the
> > comps-f16-xml.in file, which I need to use in my kickstart file. Is
> > there any way I could use this fille, but use the Fedora repository
> > and not the rawhide repo?
>
>  You can use createrepo to build a repo from rpm files that you want
>  to have available and then add an entry for that repo in your kickstart
>  file to use it. 
Cool. Thanks for the trip. I shall try doing this.

Regards,
Amit

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