On Friday 05 August 2005 7:42 am, 3kr1ltp02@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Bart Whiteley bwhiteley-at-novell.com |rpm-list| wrote: > >Why install RPMs into a chroot on each box? Why not just tar up the > >build environment, and anyone that needs it can untar it locally. Or, > >NFS export the build environment to all who need it. > > > > > My habit is to make things that change very infrequently local. I'd like > to 'set it and forget it' by not having my users depend on yet another > host to do their work. As far as tar goes, maybe so. Woud there be any > reason I couldn't run a command like 'rpm -ql packageName' in the untared > build enviroment? No reason. Once the build environment is untarred and you chroot into it, you can query the RPM database, and even install/remove RPMs in the chrooted system. -- Bart Whiteley _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
