[Libguestfs] Fwd: Re: febootstrap in Debian

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:15:38PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> Could we build the appliance on the target system and only update it
> on package upgrades?

While you could do this, I don't think it's a good idea.  The main
part of building libguestfs in Fedora is we run the whole test suite
on the appliance, thus ensuring it has a high chance of actually
working when downloaded by the end user.  We often find errors too --
for example only two days ago we ran across a bug in the upstream
'file' program.

Since it's a supermin appliance, distributing it is not an issue
because it's only a couple of megabytes compressed.

I leave it up to your discretion though.

Rich.

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