[Hosting] Equipement donations and Inflow walk-through?

[Benjamin Reed]

Christian J Hedemark [chris.a.t.yonderway.com] wrote:
> Can we consider a box running VMware with multiple linux distros on it, and
> do binary builds and packages?  I.e. Red Hat and Mandrake RPM's, Debian
> packages, etc.  If this can all be scripted that would be awesome.  It would
> be a great service to the community for us to take some useful projects and
> provide automated binary build services for them.  Do the builds on a series
> of rotated cron jobs so that you don't have all the different virtual
> machines building at once.

If all you're doing is linux distros, you can use chroot.  I had a vmware
setup for OpenNMS's build box, but it was pretty brittle, and a pain to
automate.  Much easier to have this:

----(snip!)----
[root.a.t.build /root]# cd /opt/distros
[root.a.t.build distros]# ls -la
total 7
drwxr-xr-x   12 root     root          312 Nov 10 12:44 .
drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root          184 Oct 15 13:06 ..
drwxr-xr-x   20 root     root          480 Oct  2 10:34 debian
drwxr-xr-x   20 root     root          504 Nov 13 08:40 mandrake7
drwxr-xr-x   19 root     root          472 Nov 13 08:47 mandrake8
drwxr-xr-x   17 root     root          408 Oct 22 11:50 oculan
drwxr-xr-x   18 root     root          528 Nov 13 08:55 redhat6
drwxr-xr-x   19 root     root          504 Nov 13 08:57 redhat7
drwxr-xr-x   18 root     root          440 Oct  2 10:35 redhat7-XF410
drwxr-xr-x   17 root     root          416 Sep 21 22:58 redhat71
drwxr-xr-x   17 root     root          408 Nov 10 13:12 redhat72
drwxr-xr-x   22 root     root          576 Oct  2 10:36 suse7
----(snip!)----

...and then do "chroot /opt/distros/redhat7" or whatever.

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