Matthew Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 01:05:52 -0700:
>> I've created a new project, called Gentoo Seeds [1]. The aim of the >> project is to create stage4 tarballs which can be used to 'seed' new boxes >> with ready-built Gentoo solutions. >> > > Can we integrate this somehow with a project (new?) to build ready-to-use > vmware or xen images? It would be silly to duplicate the work, and > testing would be much better this way. > > I would see the workflow proceed in the following manner: > Releng herd makes available new official gentoo releases > After a few weeks, the seeds herd takes releng product and creates new > application/environment specific stage4 images > Then, after a few more weeks, the virtualization herd takes seed > product and adds appropriate vmware/xen/etc modifications to create > ready-to-run virtualization images. The name for those, then, naturally follows: "seedlings". -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
