devrandom [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2014-04-03 📝 Original message:On Thu, 2014-04-03 at ...
📅 Original date posted:2014-04-03
📝 Original message:On Thu, 2014-04-03 at 07:51 +0200, Wladimir wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 6:47 AM, devrandom <c1.sf-bitcoin at niftybox.net>
> wrote:
> Nice!
>
> I wonder how much of this could be scripted.
>
>
> Everything, probably, using vmbuilder (and/or vagrant as Nick Simpson
> suggests). But that's not the point here. It is to provide exact steps
> that people can follow to get a basic (virtual) machine that they can
> use to do gitian builds.
Understood.
>
> I didn't want to end up with a
> gitian-builder-that-builds-a-gitian-builder :-) The host machine may
> not even have any scripting languages installed (in the case of
> Windows).
Yes, I can see the turtles there.
>
>
> It may be possible to script *some* parts (most of the quoted bash
> script is runnable as script) without automating the entire process,
> but I hope that over time we can make Gitian itself easier to
> use/setup, so that less steps are needed in the first place.
Understood. :) I would definitely like to see in Gitian any
improvements that make it easier for newcomers to get started.
>
>
> Wladimir
>
>
>
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Miron / devrandom
📝 Original message:On Thu, 2014-04-03 at 07:51 +0200, Wladimir wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 6:47 AM, devrandom <c1.sf-bitcoin at niftybox.net>
> wrote:
> Nice!
>
> I wonder how much of this could be scripted.
>
>
> Everything, probably, using vmbuilder (and/or vagrant as Nick Simpson
> suggests). But that's not the point here. It is to provide exact steps
> that people can follow to get a basic (virtual) machine that they can
> use to do gitian builds.
Understood.
>
> I didn't want to end up with a
> gitian-builder-that-builds-a-gitian-builder :-) The host machine may
> not even have any scripting languages installed (in the case of
> Windows).
Yes, I can see the turtles there.
>
>
> It may be possible to script *some* parts (most of the quoted bash
> script is runnable as script) without automating the entire process,
> but I hope that over time we can make Gitian itself easier to
> use/setup, so that less steps are needed in the first place.
Understood. :) I would definitely like to see in Gitian any
improvements that make it easier for newcomers to get started.
>
>
> Wladimir
>
>
>
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Miron / devrandom