Michael Meyer wrote:
--- Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
I did not completely understand what you did mean with a vmware/xen build. Shall I install different OSs or shall I install Ubuntu Linux on top of ubuntu Linux in order to make sure that I did not change the default install significantly?
We use VMWare player/workstation/server to host an OS image whose sole aim in life is to do clean builds. The account there has off the shelf versions of ant 1.7, Sun Java 1.5, etc, and the svn account has read access to the repositories only. It is impossible to commit changes.
This lets me set the VM for doing a release while I can work on code in the main IDE-hosted system, with ant 1.8.0 alphas, Java 1.6 on a BEA JVM, and other stuff that would normally cause problems.
This makes it a good way of doing releases, as I can be 100% sure that we arent making java6, ant 1.8 changes (though the CI service would catch those), and it lets me work on new features while the next release is being tested. That said, yesterday's release fell through as -the clock was 4 hours slow (no idea why) and Amazon S3 was rejecting requests on the tests of S3 components -I can't FTP things up to sourceforge without the connection being closed. I need to look at that more, as it is holding us up.
Unfortunately, I have neither VMware nor any Windows version. Additionally, I am not able to install Centos 5.1 (RHEL 5.1), as the RHEL kernel has no driver for my IDE Controller, which is why there is no DMA available and anything is dog slow.
ah, that doesnt help. VMware player and server are both free, work on ubuntu quite nicely, etc, *provided you have enough RAM*. My laptop doesnt :(
So obviously, I should be able to install Ubuntu on top of Ubuntu and I could try to install Solaris 10 or SXDE on Ubuntu.
I use ubuntu everywhere I have a linux system; the Centos/RHEL systems are for testing. Our software is shipped to customers as .rpms as well as tar/zip/izpack jars, so we need them around to build and test
-- Steve Loughran http://www.1060.org/blogxter/publish/5 Author: Ant in Action http://antbook.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
