We have some ancient systems we use to build backward compatible software. I was thinking about copying the root/usr stuff to a faster more modern system and using a chrooted sshd to get to each build system (now just a separate root on a single build system).
But now I see random information floating around about linux containers and lightweight virtualization. Anyone who understands this stuff know if it might be more appropriate than a "simple" chroot for what I want to do?
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 03:24:05PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
We have some ancient systems we use to build backward compatible software. I was thinking about copying the root/usr stuff to a faster more modern system and using a chrooted sshd to get to each build system (now just a separate root on a single build system).
But now I see random information floating around about linux containers and lightweight virtualization. Anyone who understands this stuff know if it might be more appropriate than a "simple" chroot for what I want to do?
Is this stuff which might build with Mock? Mock is a system that's basically made for exactly this kind of cross-distro-version compiling, and there is work on migrating it to use containers natively.
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