Running Xvfb during a package build -- good idea?

[Adam Jackson]

On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 11:15 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 10:38 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> 
> > Orthogonal to whether koji can or should let you do it, this came up in
> > the context of another discussion today.  I think what we'll end up
> > doing is something like:
> > 
> > Xvfb -displayfd 3 3>& /tmp/whatever
> > 
> > to give the server a way of both picking a free display number, and
> > communicating it back to the launching process.  Does that sound like
> > it'd work for you?
> 
> The xvfb-run helper I added to Xvfb in rawhide might also be useful for
> this purpose, depending on the number of things that need to launch.

That was actually the trigger for the "other discussion".  Kristian was
a bit miffed about adding a few thousand lines of shell to achieve what
ought to be done directly in the server in like twenty lines of C.

So, expect that script to go away.

- ajax
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