[haiku-commits] Re: haiku: hrev43517 - build/jam
- From: Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:32:51 -0800
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 10:25 AM, scottmc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Would it be possible to change the VM nightly image builder so that it
> builds 2GB images that already contained many of these packages? That would
> make it so much easier for potential devs to download a fresh nightly VM
> image and just be able to download their code and build it. As it is right
> now the VM images are too small (500MB?) to even be able to compile
> anything. Sure it currently includes an empty 2GB partition, but to use
> that requires jumping through a few hoops, I'd be nice if it was already big
> enough and we could just use it.
Other than it being unrelated to the decision to switch from
Subversion to Git in the images, this would be amazingly easy to add
here:
http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/build/jam/ReleaseBuildProfiles#n46
Just create conditional logic that changes the image size based on the
profile name.
The only drawback I see is that we don't use the sparse VMDK image
type (where the vmdk only uses as much physical space as necessary
when the empty image space is zero'd out), and a therefore tester will
need 2gb of free space to uncompress the vmdk as a result.
We should probably move the discussion to [haiku-development] - I know
it's come up before without any change made.
- Urias
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