What makes a spin a Spin?

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:09:30 -0600 (CST)
Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 22:39 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > > On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:19:53 -0900
> > > > We _are_ dealing with it.  Infrastructure was kind enough to provide
> > > > xen instances for spins to be created on.  I'm volunteering to do the
> > > > actual spin creation.  Rel-eng is working out a proposal (which I know
> > > > various Board members have seen drafts of) for how to handle this.
> > > >
> > > Side note about this, if anyone wants to try to get the cd creation
> > > working in a chroot or via mock it would be greatly appreciated.  As it is
> > > we've got a dedicated i386 and x86_64 machine that just sit there waiting
> > > for spins, we should be able to do it on the builders.
> >
> > If only it were as simple as "get it going in mock".  Unfortunately,
> > with how SELinux policy works in chroots (hint: it affects outside the
> > chroot), this is pretty non-trivial and is going to require getting
> > SELinux upstream on-board with allowing contexts to be set which aren't
> > known by the kernel or per-namespace policy.
> >
> 
> That's why I'm asking someone else to do it :)  Shouldn't it just work if
> we just have all the builders in permissive mode?  Needless to say
> maintaining whole machines just to build cd images seems silly, especially
> for something like SELinux.

I was under the impression that they were on-demand Xen guests.  Is
this not the case?

josh