On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Mike Hearn wrote:
Useful definitely, but if this is going to become some sort of semi-formal recommendation then I'd be pretty disappointed. You shouldn't need a VM and lots of Fedora installs to produce RPMs!
A chroot is enough for building. As Rex Dieter pointed out, you may need more than a chroot for testing though, especially when testing daemons that listen on network ports, or when testing untrusted programs.
-- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
