Xen in rawhide
Jos Vos
jos at xos.nl
Mon Dec 13 22:06:37 UTC 2004
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 04:27:51PM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Mike Hearn wrote:
>
> > Useful definitely, but if this is going to become some sort of
> > semi-formal recommendation then I'd be pretty disappointed. You
> > shouldn't need a VM and lots of Fedora installs to produce RPMs!
>
> A chroot is enough for building. As Rex Dieter pointed out,
> you may need more than a chroot for testing though, especially
> when testing daemons that listen on network ports, or when
> testing untrusted programs.
Yes, a chroot *should* be enough, although I'm personally to
paranoid to trust that. But even when chroot'ing, you have an OS
install for every "target environment".
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