On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 04:27:51PM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: > 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. Yes, a chroot *should* be enough, although I'm personally to paranoid to trust that. But even when chroot'ing, you have an OS install for every "target environment". -- -- Jos Vos <jos@xxxxxx> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204
