Re: [Denemo-devel] Linux Installation

[Richard Shann]

On Mon, 2015-05-18 at 21:13 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> 
> On May 18, 2015 7:05 AM, "Andreas Schneider" <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> >
> > Am 18.05.2015 um 09:54 schrieb Richard Shann:
> > > That would be great, I can put a link to it on the Downloads page
> (or it
> > > could be hosted on denemo.org if that is ok with Jeremiah). Would
> this
> > > be for a particular version of Debian (e.g. stable, or testing)? I
> > > haven't installed a package from outside the Debian website in
> living
> > > memory (my living memory is only a few months, I must confess) so
> I
> > > don't know if this is something that will just work for people or
> > > whether they risk conflicts between library versions. Above all, I
> think
> > > it would be bad to offer something that might de-stabilize some
> other
> > > program by installing a different library version of something.
> >
> > I would build the current stable version of Denemo on a Debian
> stable
> > system using the libraries that are shipped with the distro. The
> user
> > can install the packages with the package manager, and it should
> just
> > work. If you can host the files on denemo.org, that would be great.
> >
> 
> Yes. They can be hosted them on denemo.org. I only want to have the
> current stable and one version behind it. 

How about the current stable and the latest git? That way we get more
testers...
> 
> It would be easy to write a script to do it in a VM of each distro. We
> could also provide a files.list or whatever debian needs for its apt
> system.
> 
> Jeremiah

Don't these virtual machines each swallow a big chunk of disk? Or can
you imagine a script that creates a virtual machine from a distro file
and automatically builds within and exports a package and then deletes
the vm afterwards?


Richard