Re: [Libguestfs] Fwd: Re: febootstrap in Debian
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:15:38PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
Could we build the appliance on the target system and only update it
on package upgrades?
While you could do this, I don't think it's a good idea. The main
part of building libguestfs in Fedora is we run the whole test suite
on the appliance, thus ensuring it has a high chance of actually
working when downloaded by the end user. We often find errors too --
for example only two days ago we ran across a bug in the upstream
'file' program.
Since it's a supermin appliance, distributing it is not an issue
because it's only a couple of megabytes compressed.
I leave it up to your discretion though.
Rich.
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