On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 02:28:24PM +0100, Josef Reidinger wrote: > On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 14:14:33 +0100 > Arvin Schnell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 12:51:43PM +0100, Josef Reidinger wrote: > > > > > > Maintain such VMs? Those are standard images just started. If the > > > > VM has a unused disk some integration tests for libstorage and > > > > snapper would already be possible. > > > > > > keeping it up to date, world around changed, so also VM need some > > > love. I already have over 20 vms for various env and for older one, > > > there is always problems when started that something outside > > > changed ( e.g. YaST:Devel no longer support the old distribution, > > > maintenance updates released, etc. ) > > > > No, you are not taking about the cloud but just a hand full of > > machines. I propose to just take the latest image from the > > buildservice, create a VM and start it. Afterwards you delete the > > VM again. I have heard Amazon makes good money with that concept. > > you need to maintain such images, or you think someone magically create > for you latest snapper devel image?
Well, yes: https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:aschnell:build-appliance > > That is entirely exaggerated: On my machine I can work on > > libstorage, snapper and yast2-core without having to change the > > set of installed packages. Maybe that's different in the Ruby > > world but for C/C++ some extra libraries in general do not hurt. > > so you propose to create such heavy weight beast image that contain all > development libraries in our cloud setup? And ensure everything is up > to date. And to be honest it is not some, it is a lot of libraries, its > devel packages and generators ( like bison or flex ). > So you create for all distribution such beast with tons of extra > libraries and then using it? The appliance above, which has everything to compile, unit-test, and package snapper, libstorage and libstorage-bgl-eval, is not hugh, below half of a GB. > And do you expect that newcomers do it same way? No, the appliance is for Jenkins, not developers. Regards, Arvin -- Arvin Schnell, <[email protected]> Senior Software Engineer, Research & Development SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5 90409 Nürnberg Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
