RPM roadmapping

Jonathan Dieter jdieter at gmail.com
Thu Aug 2 15:52:43 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 17:26 +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:43:29 +0300, Jonathan Dieter wrote:
> 
> > Packaging it as an rpm would also help in keeping track of what
> > "version" of the virtual hard drive is on each real machine.  If we
> > decide to add a new program to the virtual hard drive, we could bump
> > the version and rebuild the rpm.  All systems with the old rpm would
> > get the new one during their nightly yum update.
> 
> Especially since the virtual machines modify the drive image, thus
> an update kills all modifications to the image.
> 

I should probably clarify my previous post.  The hard drive images are
readonly, and we use qemu-kvm -snapshot, so all changes are lost when
the machine is shut down anyway.

Jonathan
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