Isn't it slower? And seems like unnecessary moving parts, so more chance of something going wrong than bundling them in the image. But maybe I'm missing something.
Victor Lowther (victor_lowt...@dell.com) wrote: > What is wrong with installing the packages at run-time? > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: crowbar-bounces On Behalf Of Adam Spiers > > Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 6:43 AM > > To: crowbar > > Subject: Re: [Crowbar] [barclamp-provisioner] installation of gems in > > sledgehammer > > > > Hi all, > > > > Whilst upstreaming our provisioner changes to Pebbles, I noticed that we > > have a > > couple of commits which change run-time installation of gems in Sledgehammer > > to build-time installation: > > > > https://github.com/crowbar/barclamp-provisioner/commit/756e8f9a3 > > https://github.com/crowbar/barclamp-provisioner/commit/a232a69de > > > > Is there any reason why they should not be included at build-time rather > > than > > run-time? It would be good to converge on this if possible. > > > > ----- Forwarded message from "J. Daniel Schmidt" <notificati...@github.com> > > - > > ---- > > > > Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 06:23:52 -0700 > > From: "J. Daniel Schmidt" <notificati...@github.com> > > To: crowbar/barclamp-provisioner <barclamp- > > provisio...@noreply.github.com> > > Cc: Adam Spiers <aspi...@suse.com> > > Subject: Re: [barclamp-provisioner] adaptions to allow the script also for > > SUSE > > based images > > (756e8f9) > > Reply-To: crowbar/barclamp-provisioner > > <reply+c-3226553-8adf655d2d5208d32d08663b8084046f48cc0eb4- > > 100...@reply.github.com> > > > > This was done to allow the script to run in the SUSE sleshammer image. This > > image is very stripped down and no gem installs are possible at runtime - > > all > > needed gems have to be added to the image itself. > > There was some other magic in the original sledghammer image that put some > > gem files to /root and this script was meant to install them. With this > > patch we > > disabled the behaviour for suse but kept it for other distributions resp. > > sles/slege-hammer images. > > > > > > So if this feature is still present, we should definitely port this patch - > > or a similar > > functionality to disable gem installs. > > > > --- > > Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: > > https://github.com/crowbar/barclamp- > > provisioner/commit/756e8f9a3289b9b264513fadb010ed004a9ca1ea#commitco > > mment-3226553 > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Crowbar mailing list > > Crowbar@dell.com > > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/crowbar > > For more information: http://crowbar.github.com/ _______________________________________________ Crowbar mailing list Crowbar@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/crowbar For more information: http://crowbar.github.com/
