[Sugar-devel] [sugar-build] Landing the chroot branch

[Gonzalo Odiard]

Sorry, what is the procedure to enable/disable the use of chroot?

Gonzalo


On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com>wrote:

> This is now implemented
>
> [dnarvaez at dnarvaez sugar-build]$ cat prefs.json
> {"use_broot": false}
>
>
> On 10 July 2013 15:55, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> yup, I'm planning to keep a non chrooted build that you can enable in
>> prejs.json. Automatic dependencies installation will only for work for the
>> distro we are using in the chroot though, as you are suggesting. That won't
>> require any additional config maintenance (and related automate testing).
>>
>> I'll try to get this in before merging.
>>
>>
>> On 10 July 2013 15:49, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > I'm planning to merge the chroot branch on master. Though, since it's a
>>> > major change, I'm trying to avoid disruption as much as possible.
>>> >
>>> > As a first step, I'm switch the build infrastructure to use that
>>> branch.
>>> >
>>> > I encourage people to switch to the branch too when they have a chance
>>> > (perhaps without throwing away the master build until they have a
>>> working
>>> > chroot build) and to report any issue they run into.
>>>
>>> Just personal preference, but I would prefer to keep working in a
>>> non-chrooted environment. One less layer, one less thing to go wrong
>>> or offer some kind of irritation. Of course it is up to you if you
>>> want to support that, but I think it has value as it is much closer to
>>> the environment that Sugar will be deployed in. I would have no
>>> problem with you picking a lone distro/version where this works,
>>> perhaps matching what is run as a chroot on the other distros, i.e. in
>>> this case you could say "OK, no chroot, but only if you're running
>>> F19"
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Daniel Narvaez
>>
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> Daniel Narvaez
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