On Sat, 14 Jul 2018 10:12:29 +0300 Jonathan Aquilina <jaquil...@eagleeyet.net>
said:

> I can get a vps from Linode and sponsor it myself I can work on setting up
> docker containers for build systems if need be.

that's total overkill. just chroots will do fine. it's not the need for vm's -
its the heed to create and maintain every chroot, to maintain and make all the
packaging files etc. and often for distros people aren't familiar with.

> Also what is interesting is with Linode you can setup and use a GUI through
> what they call glish
> 
> https://www.linode.com/docs/platform/using-the-linode-graphical-shell-glish/
> 
> These vms might make for good little testing environments if anyone is
> interested.
> 
> Honestly though the two types of packages one needs to build binaries for are
> deb and rpm right?
> 
> Another question do we have any snaps for Ubuntu?

no.

> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> > On 14 Jul 2018, at 09:03, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
> > <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 13 Jul 2018 14:35:10 -0400 Stefan Schmidt
> > <ste...@datenfreihafen.org> said:
> > 
> >> Hello.
> >> 
> >>> On 13.07.2018 13:09, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
> >>> I think my take is more from the end user base. Isn’t it worth the time
> >>> and effort to have binaries available for those non developers?
> >> 
> >> Every night? I would say no. For releases? Maybe.
> > 
> > setting up the infra (chroots etc.) for every distro and multiple versions
> > is going to be a LOT of work... the packaging needs to be properly done with
> > proper split between dev/devel and core, etc. ... I think the best bang for
> > buck would be to focus on 1 or 2 distros and do it right (make a proper
> > distro image/install that has everything set up right).
> > 
> >> regards
> >> Stefan Schmidt
> >> 
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